Word: gardners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some 700 people packed the Gardner Auditorium galleries for each of two three-hour sessions, in which discussion focused on two bills limiting the possession of handguns to the police...
...most city businessmen and political leaders today believe that p.r. just accentuates the fragmentation, making it easier to see. Cambridge Trust President Gardner Bradlee holds that the whole political base is simply too fragmented to get anything done. "There are 25 different points of view on each issue, and they all want to be represented," he says. "It's very difficult to get a consensus and there is no one today capable of forming a coalition...
...face lights up--it's like a code-word for action. They won't say whether it was beneficial action, but businessmen will admit it was progress just the same. "Crane was a catalyst--the person to whom people went when they wanted something done," Cambridge Trust President H. Gardner Bradlee '40 recalls. "He was a real leader. He had the respect of the whole community...
Virginia Polytechnic Institute Freshman Gardner Britt, 18, must have been playing football without his helmet. An article in the January Ladies' Home Journal implied that he was more or less engaged to President Ford's daughter Susan, 17-not that she was so special. "I don't think she will do anything spectacular," he opined, suggesting that Susan herself was antifeminist. "She's not like some of those Miss Teenage Americas who always have some fancy career in mind-like nursing." Added Chauvinist Britt: "A job is all right if women can do an equal...
Tour Guide. Gardner does not restrict himself to century-old American settings. He is also at home in classical antiquity (Jason and Medea) and the late Dark Ages (Grendel). He fills pages with royalty and serfs, knights, monks, prisoners and jailers. Magic is taken for granted; humble facts are made to seem miraculous. A lesser writer might stretch the profligate inventiveness of this single book into a long career...