Word: gardners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thought of that." McGovern's key staff and advisers met for four hours, recalls Gary Hart, to "consider every legitimate name and pare down to a list of no more than six." At first there were about 30 names. Most were politicians, but the list also included John Gardner of Common Cause, the Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, president of Notre Dame and Chairman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, even Walter Cronkite...
Aidan Kelly's San Francisco Bay area coven seems more designed to celebrate life. Kelly, 31, a former Roman Catholic who is a manuscript editor of physics textbooks, generally follows a variety of witchcraft called Gardnerian, after a retired British customs official, Gerald Gardner, who formulated it in England in the 1940s. Gardnerian witchcraft is what Occult Debunker Owen Rachleff calls "library witchcraft": it seems to have been largely concocted from books, perhaps combined with some rudimentary witchcraft practices of existing covens in the Hampshire hills. Kelly himself is one of the founders of a Gardnerian spin-off called...
...minimal: a white waist cord for first-degree witches, a red cord for second degree, and a magic knife called an othame. So far, not even Kelly has felt prepared to go for the highest degree, the green garter. Among other things, it involves a milder version of what Gardner called the "Great Rite," an act of ritual sexual intercourse. "Nobody in our coven," says Kelly, "has felt ready to take...
...WCVB is after innovation, it does have an impressive staff interested in its change. Included are Oscar Handlin, Warren Professor of American History, who has already had a marked impact on the editorial policy of the station Dr. John Knowles '47, director of the Rockefeller Foundation; the aforementioned Gardner; and Gerald Holton, professor of Physics, whose science programs are still on the drawing board...
Whether BBI has the money to develop and create the programs that these men envision may be another matter. The stockholder group is extremely small--only 25 or 30 people--but most are either heavily engaged in day-to-day commitments, or in policy. Although Gardner said that most of the changes will be worked out sometime this Fall, he admitted that the station had to "get out from debt and the shakedown" before they could contemplate implementation...