Word: gardners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...John Gardner...
Your report from Lake Placid [Feb. 25] was exciting, balanced and moving. Despite organizational and political problems, the surprise of Leonhard Stock in the downhill and the withdrawal of Gardner and Babilonia in pairs are poignant examples of the drama only the Olympics can produce...
...Atlantic has not lost its calm, its intelligent voice or its reputation for literary excellence. Except for The New Yorker, it remains the foremost showcase for serious fiction and poetry in the U.S. Among recent contributors: John Earth, Bernard Malamud, John Updike, Joyce Carol Gates and John Gardner. The March issue features an essay by Archibald MacLeish, a memoir by Isaac Bashevis Singer and a poem by Robert Perm Warren...
...Gardner Bradlee '40, president of the Cambridge Trust Company, yesterday called the move "a disappointment, but the logical thing...
...years ago, the answer might have been an unequivocal yes. After all, Psychologists Allen and Beatrice Gardner of the University of Nevada had managed in the late 1960s to teach the chimp Washoe to use 132 signs; the precocious animal was even credited with having invented a phrase of her own, water bird for swan. About the same time, David Premack, of the University of California at Santa Barbara, using plastic symbols of different shapes and colors to represent words, taught his prize pupil, Sarah, some 130 words and reported that she had also mastered some phrases. At the Yerkes...