Word: gardners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bombarding the magazine with telephone inquiries and letters are being advised to take a second look at the article. It is sprinkled with names like Ms. Henrietta Birdbrain and Robert Ripoff-as befits an April Fools' piece. Actually, the biggest giveaway is the author's name: Martin Gardner...
...Gardner is the clown prince of science. Several of his card and numerical inventions have become classics on the magicians' and mentalists' circuit. His "Mathematical Games" column in Scientific American is one of the few bridges over C.P. Snow's famous "gulf of mutual incomprehension" that lies between the technical and literary cultures. The late Jacob Bronowski (The Ascent of Man) was a devotee; Poet W.H. Auden constantly quoted from Gardner's work. In his novel Ada, Vladimir Nabokov pays a twinkling tribute by introducing one Martin Gardiner, whom he calls "an invented philosopher...
Razor Blades. Nevertheless, as the mathemagician admits, "not all my readers are fans. I have also managed to provoke some outspoken enemies." In the forefront are the credulous victims of Gardner's recent hoaxes: an elaborate treatise that demonstrated the power of pyramid-shaped structures to preserve life and sharpen razor blades, and "proof by a fictional Dr. Matrix that the millionth digit of π-if it were ever computed, would be the number 5. Even angrier are those occultivated believers in extrasensory perception and faith healing. From the beginning of his career, Gardner has been illuminating the dark...
...film based on Maurice Maeterlinck's allegorical fairy tale. Jane Fonda seized the occasion to make political statements to reporters. ("... It's not in the Soviet Union where civil liberties are most infringed, but in South Viet Nam.") In the movie Fonda is cast as Night, Ava Gardner as Luxury, Cicely Tyson as Cat, while Elizabeth Taylor plays Light, Witch, Mother and Maternal Love. Director George Cukor's difficulties in communicating with Soviet artists and cameramen has threatened the film's projected summer completion. "I'm sending for my children to be with...
Douglass S. Gardner '57, associate registrar and access officer, said yesterday that over 260 students have examined their files since the law went into effect on November...