Word: gardners
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...ALTOGETHER fitting and proper that John W. Gardner's Godkin Lectures should be the first to be delivered exclusively on television. Not that the former Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare had prepared any deep tricks for exploiting the medium. He sometimes sat down and other times stood up in the rather unconvincing WGBH imitation office-study, delivering the three speeches in an even, almost monotonous voice, with many more verbal fluffs than one would expect from a public man of Gardner's titanic reputation...
There is no reason to doubt the official explanation of the new format--that it was fixed upon to avoid the embarrassment of small crowds and the discomfort of speaking into blinding television lights at Sanders Theater. Gardner, a busy man these days at the Urban Coalition, reportedly wanted a time-saving method of giving the lectures and television provided that too. At the same time, though, one can easily guess what the response of a normal group of Harvard students and Faculty would have been to Gardner's comparison of Marcuse's disciples to the businessmen who supported Hitler...
Thursday, March 27 THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS. 9-11:10 p.m.). A seedy ex-priest turned tourist guide (Richard Burton) suffers Deborah Kerr, Ava Gardner and Sue Lyon in Tennessee Williams' The Night of the Iguana...
Dean Price emphasized that this year's format is only an experiment. Ninety-seven per cent of McGeorge Bundy's audience last year watched his lectures over television. But if Gardner's series is not successful, Price said, the format will be changed back...
...Gardner changed to a television format because of the technical problems of broadcasting from a public lecture, Price said. Gardner will speak at 10 p.m. next Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday on WGBH (Channel...