Word: gardners
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...floor world burgeons with plants and needlework (she made patchwork quilts of heirloom quality for special friends this Christmas) and her new hobby, photography, for which White House Photographer David Kennerly gives professional advice. She is cautioned against making demands on the domestic staff, so when her current steady, Gardner Britt, 18, a freshman at University of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, had to catch a 6 a.m. plane, it was Susan who cooked his breakfast. Despite certain reservations, Susan and her friends find the White House a teen heaven. They bowl in the downstairs alley, dance...
McCall has discussed this Third Force with various political figures, including Elliot Richardson, John Gardner, Ralph Nader and Eugene McCarthy. "Just the fact that we all agree that this raises important issues, that's a Third Force in itself," he says. "I know it sounds amorphous as hell. So you have to ask the people if they want, say, a non-returnable-bottle bill or coastal protection. Then you attach those specifics to the abstraction. You make them realize that without the Third Force ethic-that government can be responsive, that America can still work-you cannot realize...
...Person of the Year: John W. Gardner, the founder and prime mover of Common Cause. He has demonstrated that citizen action can work and that the people's lobby is a force to be reckoned with...
...KING'S INDIAN by JOHN GARDNER Illustrations by HERBERT L FINK 323 page
With seven books published in the past five years, Novelist John Gardner, has confounded the theory that quality can only come slowly, and in small doses. Gardner is a professor of English who has managed to lob serious, stylistically adventuresome fiction over the barricades of academic coteries and onto the middle levels of America's bestseller lists. He is also a fabulist with a heart, capable of making the arcane both accessible and emotionally stirring. Near the end of The King's Indian, Gardner briefly introduces himself as a man who, "with the help of Poe and Melville...