Word: gardners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...JOHN GARDNER...
When last seen in a fine short novel called Grendel, John Gardner was busy turning monsters into men-and vice versa. His highly compressed story sang and winced and gibbered in its metaphysical chains, but it said a good deal about the dark origins and necessary delusions of society. The Sunlight Dialogues, by contrast, is an enormous trick circus trunk out of which the author keeps taking new literary treasures as if they were so many fake bananas. A philosophical disquisition upon religion and justice? Yes. A compassionate portrait of America in the uneasy '60s? Yes. A Faulknerian melodrama...
...once might have been. He fights bravely and dies heroically but prematurely-long before the movie has meandered to a close. Besides Newman, playing a desperado who dabbles in rough-and-ready jurisprudence, the cast includes Jacqueline Bisset, Tab Hunter, Stacy Keach, Roddy McDowall, Anthony Perkins and Ava Gardner, none of whom measure up to Bruno's ursine splendor and sheer animal magnetism...
...Gardner contrasted the medical systems of North and South Vietnam. He said the South has "elegant" facilities in Saigon but an absence of medical care in the villages...
...Gardner credited the success of the North Vietnamese to their emphasis on preventive medicine. He said that the preventive care has helped in the disappearance of cholera, smallpox and polio which plague South Vietnam...