Word: gardners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prospect so alarmed President Jimmy Carter that he recalled U.S. Ambassador Richard N. Gardner from Rome for consultations. For weeks, Gardner had been sending increasingly urgent cables warning of the deteriorating Italian situation. In Washington, in talks with Carter, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, Gardner emphasized his worry that the Administration's low-key approach to Eurocommunism-a stance he himself had urged-had left some Italian politicians with the mistaken impression that the U.S. did not care...
Into this void springs Politicks & Other Human Interests, almost straight from the brain of Thomas B. Morgan, former editor of The Voice in the pre-Rupert Murdoch days, and once press secretary to former New York Mayor John Lindsay. Morgan had the good fortune to be a protege of Gardner Cowles during the last days of Look magazine, and maybe even more important, to marry Nelson Rockefeller's daughter. Morgan tried to buy The Nation last year, but that deal fell through, and so Politicks was born. It looks very promising...
...went to Bread Loaf as a contributor in 1973, with 75 pages of manuscript under his arm. "What I needed was someone to say 'Hey, you're on the right track,' " recalls Gavin. He was duly encouraged and returned the next year with 125 pages, which Gardner then analyzed, suggesting a revision in the rhythm. This year Tom Gavin was back at Bread Loaf as a staff assistant to John Irving. His Bread Loaf manuscript is now entitled Kingkill, a novel published last June by Random House...
...Gardner Museum is located a few blocks from the MFA. This Venetian Palace houses the collection of Isabella Stuart Gardner, who apparently stipulated in her will that all the paintings in the collection must be left in the exact position she left them in; nothing can be re-arranged to make room for a special show. But the collection, which includes at least a smattering of almost every great master's work and several exquisite antiques, is magnificent. And if the pictures never change, the elaborate arrangements of flowers in the huge couryard do, and the gardens outside provide...
...because she has a comb. Typically, wordploy is incessant, and terror lurks just beneath the surface. At one point the wasp takes off his wig and stretches out one claw toward Alice "as if he wished to do the same for her." "The cutting off of hair," writes Gardner, "like decapitation and teeth extraction, is a familiar Freudian symbol of castration. Interesting interpretations of this will surely be forthcoming from psychoanalytically oriented critics...