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...GARDNER Darby...
...when speaking about the job needs of those on welfare. He argued that there is as much dignity in scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans "as there is in any other work to be done in this country, including my own." Equally to the point was former HEW Secretary John Gardner's comment that "an excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher." Disconcerting though it may be to parents who have heavily invested in their children's educations, many of this year's graduates who are heading for alternative vocations may be on the right track...
Archie Gwathmey, Craig Thomas, and Gardner Rowbotham compete for the last two singles positions...
...GARDNER'S will has some of the flavor of the Miss Havisham scene in Dickens' Great Expectations - she wanted everything kept the way she left it. She explicitly specified that not an article be added or moved from its place in her house, for if anything was changed, the Museum and the funding to support it would become the property of Harvard University...
...Gardner Museum is in fact Mrs. Jack's jewel box with its own Vermeer quality of natural lighting, stone floors, Gothic windows, and Flemish tapestries. The spring flowers that fill the courtyard intertwine with the Venetian stone and grow into ornamented columns. Her museum is a refuge from the noise, the pollution, and the threatening man-made environment today; the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, unchanged in all these years, is one brief moment caught from fleeting time...