Word: digest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Plain Yorkshiremen found it pretty hard to digest, but few gallerygoers found the show impossible. A bespectacled schoolgirl named Moreen Beedle was one of the few. "My dad said I should come along and look at it," she explained, "because he was at school with Henry Moore. But I don't know, looks a proper mess to me." Ronald Skipsey, a tweedy old insurance man, stayed on the fence: "They say genius is akin to madness, don't they?" But it was a redfaced Wakefield cab driver, Tom Pickering, who came closest to the Yorkshire concensus...
...illustration, the Met had wheeled in sculpture, painting and prints from most of its vast departments, had even borrowed a few pieces from the advance-guard Museum of Modern Art. As a result, the show was a sort of digest version of the Met itself, and as it was all in one place, a little easier on the feet of the tourists who would be dropping in all summer...
When Morgan wants to make fun of Judge Anthony or Gabriel Heatter or Luella Parsons, the Messrs, Anthony and Heatter and Miss Parsons hurt for a long time thereaftr. Once you hear Morgan spoof scientific experts you are pretty shame-faced the next time you take a Reader's Digest cure for acne seriously...
History is a subject which still puts a premium on the memory. If you have a reasonably good one, if you can read a book and digest it--history isn't an awfully hard field. The biggest thing history has to offer is considerable range and freedom of choice. Six courses are all that are needed for concentration...
...analysis further into American life: "The common ground on which we may meet for mutual pleasure and understanding is narrowed . . . Instead of being plowed deeply and continuously by the art of good talk, it is planted with the purchased flowers of jokes and stories from the Reader's Digest, with radio and video...