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Edited by John Gardner...
...once heartening and tragic. Almost every story in it is worth rereading, but the book is the last work of its editor, killed in a motorcycle accident 2½ months ago. For the most part shunning pieces that appeared in major periodicals ("all knife-flash, no blood"). Novelist John Gardner also sidelines such contemporary masters as John Updike, Donald Barthelme and Ann Beattie in favor of relative newcomers who display "a new seriousness...
...cream of Gardner's choices are stories that bridge these wild swings of mood and tone. Raymond Carver, the John Cheever of machinists and misfits, contributes a characteristically unusual short fiction. By the end of "Cathedral," the sarcastic hero, his eyes shut, is sharing a ballpoint pen with a blind visitor. Together they are drawing a cathedral. "My eyes were still closed. I was in my house and I knew that. But I didn't feel inside anything," he reports. He says to the blind man, "It's really something." Readers of Best American Short Stories will...
...distinctive placed in an Olympic context Carruthers and his sister Kitty stated on the 1980 team, after gaining fame in the another world in 1975 when they won national honors. They placed fourth in the 1980 Olympic pairs competition although most attention went to Americans Tai Babulonia and Randy Gardner With Bronze medals in World Championship competition and Gold medals in the United States, they are America's brightest hope for the 1984 competition...
...Lebanon. Far more important for the ITU, the resolution thwarted an explosive proposal, sponsored by Algeria and strongly supported by Libya, Iraq and other hard-line Arab states, that demanded Israel's expulsion from the nominally apolitical organization. The chief US representative at the meeting, Lawyer Michael Gardner, pronounced himself absolutely delighted" at the outcome Gardner had warned that passage of the measure would mean U.S. withdrawal from the ITU and suspension of $2.4 million in American funding (more than 6% of the ITU'S budget last year) for the agency. Said Gardner: "Nairobi has sent a clear...