Word: gardners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vice President, Walter Mondale; the commission's former director, Zbigniew Brzezinski, who could become Carter's National Security adviser; one of the President-elect's leading union backers, U.A.W. Chief Leonard Woodcock; Attorney Paul Warnke, a possible choice for Secretary of Defense; and Columbia Professor Richard Gardner, a Carter foreign policy aide...
OCTOBER LIGHT by JOHN GARDNER 434 pages. Knopf...
More than any of his contemporaries, John Gardner has made being a novelist a hyphenated art. In The Sunlight Dialogues he did a brilliant turn as philosopher-novelist, debating issues of law and dissent while nimbly stage-managing a family melodrama in upstate New York. In his re-creations of myth, Grendel and Jason and Medeia, he played the novelist-as-epic-poet, perhaps a little consciously; but once again he revealed his consistent longing for Significance, for the Big Theme, for some dimension that extends beyond the modern novel into older, more classical forms...
...Peter S. Gardner 76-4, spent part of several summers building a one room Lincoln Log cabin on his family's property in northern Vermont. Next week, Gardner and his brother will stretch a canvas across the top of the unfinished structure and camp beneath it in sub-zero temperatures...
...Gardner, who spent Christmas in 1974 climbing and camping in the White Mountains, related a story about people who built a similar cabin improperly and were crushed when the ground froze and the cabin collapsed...