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...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...
...Gardner, children are not helpless victims. Instead of wasting time "blaming people for things that happened in the past, things that cannot be changed," they can "start doing the things that will make the future happier." They can, for example, "make it their business to find friends so that they'll be less lonely." But they must observe W.C. Fields' rule: If at first you don't succeed, try, try again: if after that, you still don't succeed, forget it. One thing to give up on rather quickly, the author suggests, is trying...
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...