Word: gardners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gardner will head...
Well, Dad, I guess you're going to be a lameduck in Utah and a sitting duck in California," quipped Lisa Gardner, 16, when she heard about her father's appointment last week. On July 1, after a decade as the University of Utah's popular president, David Pierpont Gardner, 49, takes on what is probably the nation's most challenging job in education. He will become the 15th president of the nine-campus, 139,176-student University of California, the finest public university system in the U.S., and one, as Gardner says, "where...
...magic worked by songs is essentially mysterious. It doubtless has some thing to do with the organization of the brain. The musical faculty resides chiefly in the right hemisphere, along with the emotions, the nonlogical, intuitive powers of the mind. Music cohabits in the brain with myth. Says Howard Gardner, a research psychologist at Harvard: "Music mirrors the structure and the range of our emotions. It has the same kind of flow as our emotional life." What is the sound of the right brain singing...
...house, which has been sold, greets Mags like a bare, ruined choir of lamentation. The great vaulting windows are naked, the marble fireplace mantelpiece is shrouded, and the living room floor is scattered with empty packing cartons. In the direst exodus of their lives, Fanny (Marian Seldes) and Gardner Church (Donald Moffat) are retreating, year-round, to their summer cottage on Cape Cod. There, as Fanny puts it, with caustic self-pity, there will be "nothing but the gulls, the oysters...
Mags intends to do their portrait, but the Churches paint it for us first. Gardner has been a renowned poet, the confrere of Yeats and Frost, whom he tellingly quotes. Now he is, in Fanny's words, "very gaga" and "deaf as an adder." He repeats questions that he has asked and answers questions that have not been asked. He guards his latest incoherent manuscript like a toothless lion and then flings it through the air Like a sheaf of errant snowflakes...