Word: zoologist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Excellence. The bill failed, but it echoed the inglorious 1940s, when the university regents fired able President Homer Rainey, who had accused them of imperiously firing facultymen with a total disregard for academic freedom. The regents replaced Rebel Rainey with a tamer president, Zoologist Theophilus S. Painter, who devoted himself to fruit-fly research. They also dumped famed Author J. Frank Dobie, Texas' top folklorist, who refused to stop protesting the Rainey firing. By the time Texas-born Logan Wilson became president in 1953, the eyes of U.S. scholars were on Texas as a good place to avoid...
...long been the weeds and grass that flourish in Guiana's irrigation and drainage ditches. Until last year, to keep the weeds from choking off the water flow, the ditches had to be cleared expensively by hand labor or chemical herbicide. Then William H. L. Allsopp, a British zoologist at the government fisheries laboratory in Guiana's capital city of Georgetown, took a fresh look at the weed problem. In Britain's Nature, Allsopp unveils his novel solution: the manatee, a clumsy, somewhat seal-like aquatic mammal* that flounders in the rivers and sloughs of tropical America...
...Luggage, by Gerald Durrell. The author, a noted zoologist and brother of Lawrence Durrell, tells of following his love of animals to the Cameroons, and shows that he has his novelist brother's ability to impale the butterfly of reality on the point...
...London town house is a neoclassic nymph, the tramp who pursues her is clearly a satyr, and the author's story of the chase is a myth as good as a mile of realistic novels. A Zoo in My Luggage, by Gerald Durrell. The author, a noted zoologist and brother of Lawrence Durrell, tells of following his love of animals to the Cameroons, and proves to have his novelist brother's ability to impale the butterfly of reality on the point...
While keeping his private zoo, Durrell, 35, has not neglected his writing. In fact, he shows his brother's gift for impaling the vivid butterfly of reality on the point of a pen. Only a very special zoologist could look at a white-bodied, black-footed mongoose and observe: "She was sleek, sinuous, and svelte, and reminded me of a creamy-skinned Parisienne belle-amie clad in nothing more than two pairs of black silk stockings...