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Music at the Gardner Museum: Frank Graves, violin; Angela Vanstory, piano...
Music at the Gardner Museum: Raphael Hillyer, Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum, 3:00pm...
Kaufmann's list reaches as far back as the 19th century, with Martin Gardner's meticulously Annotated Snark, containing the text and original illustrations by Lewis Carroll -- and as far forward as The New Book of California Tomorrow, analyzing environmental issues that affect the company's home state. Although technology accounts for most of the firm's more than $1 million sales, its environmental and urban planning books are in many libraries. In addition, Kaufmann, like his West Coast colleagues, indulges some personal whims. Gardner's first novel, The Flight of Peter Fromm, written when the author...
...Bill Kaufmann is the kind of publisher an author dreams of," says Gardner. "He takes chances -- something no large Eastern firm dares to do. And he won't compromise on binding, paper or typeface. There is no such thing as a 'middle book' to him. All of his books are important, all of his authors are stars...
Bennett has also jumped into some hot issues in elementary and secondary education, notably when he advocated vouchers that dissatisfied public school parents could use to send their children to different schools, either public or private. He appointed two assistants, Eileen Marie Gardner of the right- wing Heritage Foundation and Conservative Educator Lawrence Uzzell; both opposed major federal education programs, with Gardner against special aid for the handicapped. When Republican Lowell Weicker of the Senate Appropriations Committee threatened to block the salaries for Gardner and Uzzell, Bennett was forced to accept their resignations...