Word: gardners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WHEN TWAIN, or Norris, or Bret Harte wrote of California's San Joaquin Valley, they wrote of burgeoning industry and pioneer ranchers: of a group of men who strove ruthlessly to throttle natural resources for their own profit. In Fat City, Leonard Gardner speaks only of status and decay, and a society where choices made by men are arbitrary and fruitless...
...immediately whistleable tunes but is nonetheless marked by a considerable genius. Last week, when the New York City Opera produced it, a sellout audience responded with a twelve-minute ovation, a generous part of it in praise of the ingenuity used by Director Frank Corsaro and Mixed-Media Experts Gardner Compton and Emile Ardolino...
Since Chairman Gardner Cowles will join the Times's board of directors and the company itself will acquire a 23% interest in the Times, the influx of cash and prestige to Cowles Communications should also lessen dissidence from stockholders in his own company. A contented group of stockholders should mean a more powerful Gardner Cowles, who will be able to focus his attention on the languishing Look...
...WRECKAGE OF AGATHON by John Gardner. 243 pages. Harper...
Purple Hair. Anger does not always work. It is useless against playmates who taunt the child of divorce as different, strange or even sinful. But Gardner trusts the child's sense of his own worth to sustain him. "You are what you are, not necessarily what people say you are," he writes. "If someone were to say that your hair was purple and your skin green, this would not make your hair purple and your skin green...