Word: gardners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Beard's Roman Women is a rarity in that very few novels are illustrated (John Gardner's Sunlight Dialogues springs to mind as another exception). Interspersed throughout the book are clusters of photographs of Rome: rain beading on a window, sepia-colored church steeples; Roman street life, a few statues. While pleasant enough to look at, David Robinson's prints are sacrificed to a lost cause. Beard's Roman Women will not be saved by a handful of prints, whether Robinson's or Holbein's, for it is a shallow and poorly written exercise by a novelist...
When Vice-Presidential Candidate Walter Mondale addressed the conference, he discussed what may be the greatest impediment to effective leadership: distrust. Said Mondale: "John Gardner [head of Common Cause] once said that 20th century institutions have been caught in a savage crossfire between uncritical lovers and unloving critics. Gardner said that love without criticism brings stagnation and criticism without love brings destruction." What was needed, Mondale went on, was "a loving criticism of our society and its institutions...
...Ford struck me as a complacent guy; Carter's not going to be that way," Graham Gardner '79 said last night as he watched the returns come in at Kirkland House...
...good or bad, he's going to make some changes," Gardner added...
...district is one of the strangest in country. The eastern part of the district, Brookline and Newton, is Jewish and highly liberal. That is where Drinan is the strongest. Further west in Framingham, which has liberal-Jewish, blue-collar and moderate communities, and to the far west are Gardner and Fitchburg, which are Catholic, conservative and working-class. Of the approximately 500,000 people in the district, half are Catholic, 150,000 are Protestant and 100,000 are Jewish...