Word: gardners
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This, in turn, would require sluggish bureaucracies to respond more rapidly to social needs. John W. Gardner put it best at Cornell's commencement earlier this month, when he imagined himself as a 23rd century thinker. He had discovered, he said, that "20th century institutions were caught in a savage crossfire between uncritical lovers and unloving critics. On the one side, those who loved their institutions tended to smother them in an embrace of death, loving their rigidities more than their promise, shielding them from life-giving criticism. On the other side, there arose a breed of critics without...
...Gardner's dire diagnosis may or may not be overstated. What is beyond dispute is that all too many of the nation's most creative leaders are perishing, and that the trend must be checked by a national restoration of reason rather than emotion...
Cambridge University Physiologists Richard Gardner and Robert Edwards reported in Nature that they mated rabbits, then from the females took fertilized egg cells that had already grown into tiny embryos but had not yet become implanted in the uterine wall. They placed each embryo under a microscope, cut a tiny slit in its surrounding membrane and drew out several hundred cells with a suction pipette. The cells were then examined for the presence of sex chromatin, a substance found only in female cells. Separated into male and female groups, the embryos were next placed in a culture medium, a laboratory...
Such arguments are frequently irrelevant to the dissenter. He answers that law does not always provide justice; that there are good and bad laws, and that the governed sometimes detect the difference before their governors. Before his unhappy resignation as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, John Gardner observed: "Once the grip of tradition or apathy or oppression has been broken and people can hope for a better life, their aspirations soar. But the institutions that must satisfy these aspirations change at the same old glacial speed...
Eventually, Godard brings the recruits home and shows that to the spoiled belongs the victory. Ulysses and Michelangelo, now maimed and babbling, carry with them a trunkful of treasure. The loot is a lampoon of Western culture: hundreds of picture postcards that juxtapose Ava Gardner's face and an Ingres nude, Volkswagen factories and the pyramids. In the end, the soldiers are themselves consumed by the anarchic "peace" that follows victory in which sound trucks thread the littered streets blaring, "Our enemies are democrats, Marxists, Jews...