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...Gardner, 49, a deceptively casual Californian who took his doctorate in psychol ogy at the University of California at Berkeley. A prewar teacher at Mount Holyoke, Gardner is himself an example of Carnegie foresight. The corporation spotted him when he was a Marine Corps captain assigned to the OSS, and by 1955 he was president. One of the few top "philanthropoids" to rise through foundation ranks, Gardner is also one of the few with a gift for words. Gardner chiefly drafted the Rockefeller Brothers Fund's famed The Pursuit of Excellence, followed it with his own thoughtful book, Excellence...
...Carnegie's modest Manhattan office on Fifth Avenue, Gardner heads a staff of just 36. including the telephone girl. What makes this small force highly effective is constant scouting trips and close contacts throughout U.S. education. An instance lies in Gardner's simultaneous presidency of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The foundation's board consists of almost every key university president in the country. What they report about education's headaches influences the Carnegie Corporation, which then typically commissions an outside expert to find answers...
...touch. It is deep in "continuing education" for everyone from frustrated housewives to jobless young Negroes. By financing research in programmed learning, it hopes to set standards in a wildly burgeoning field. And it enthusiastically supports Harvard Psychologist Jerome Bruner's Center for Cognitive Studies, a field that Gardner hopes will discover the secrets of the human learning process and give important insights into mental disorders...
Robards reveals a brilliant sense of comedy and timing as Murray. He not only wrings the humor briskly from each line, but handles Gardner's serious, poetic commentary on the advantages of childishness with matter-of-fact clarity. Barry Gordon plays the precocious one good-naturedly, thus steering clear of Clichesville...
...Thousand Clowns is a delightful play, and just for the record, Herb Gardner is no relative of mine...