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...card and numerical inventions have become classics on the magicians' and mentalists' circuit. His "Mathematical Games" column in Scientific American is one of the few bridges over C.P. Snow's famous "gulf of mutual incomprehension" that lies between the technical and literary cultures. The late Jacob Bronowski (The Ascent of Man) was a devotee; Poet W.H. Auden constantly quoted from Gardner's work. In his novel Ada, Vladimir Nabokov pays a twinkling tribute by introducing one Martin Gardiner, whom he calls "an invented philosopher...
...reaction was restrained. Kissinger received a grateful, even enthusiastic reception from congressional leaders when he briefed them at the White House. Later, after Kissinger appeared at a closed hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Republican Jacob Javits said that he was "enormously encouraged" by Kissinger's evenhanded explanation of the problems he had encountered, though not by his message of frustration. A high State Department official who has been critical of Kissinger in the past said, "Henry did everything that he could over there, and his mission failed through no fault...
...everybody has soul." She spent most of the evening seated next to bugle-beaded Ann-Margret. Invitations called for "black tie or glitter funk," a dress code broad enough to bring put Pop Artist Andy Warhol ("I just wanted to see Ann-Margret"), Marion Javits, wife of Senator Jacob Javits, Actor Anthony Perkins and a sampling of transvestites, tuxedoed Hollywood agents and blue-jeaned rock freaks. The glitter blitz blared until 2 a.m., leaving Columbia Pictures with a bill of some $35,000 for food, flowers and guards. The whole spectacle was unsettling to Tommy Composer and Who Guitarist Pete...
...Jacob Javits...
...most important outcomes of the Bicentennial project, however, is the way different orchestras have joined to share the commissioning and guarantee wide audiences for the results. Example: John Cage, Elliott Carter, Leslie Bassett, Jacob Druckman, David Del Tredici and Morton Subotnick are writing works for, respectively, the Boston Symphony, New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Chicago Symphony and Los Angeles Philharmonic. Each orchestra is committed to play not just the work it has commissioned but all other five works. A similar round robin will involve seven orchestras in Pittsburgh, Detroit, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Minneapolis, San Francisco and Washington...