Word: digest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
This is essentially the General Education policy writ small: by presenting topics which occupy teachers in the Social and Natural Sciences and the Humanities to freshmen, the Faculty hopes to stimulate more undergraduates to individual work on those subjects. It does not require students to digest whole fields of knowledge. Surely this is a suitable rationale for the language requirement...
Roman Catholics in the U.S., laymen as well as priests, have lately worked up considerable scholarly interest in studying and discussing the theology of their church. The latest symptom of this interest is a magazine called Theology Digest, to be published three times a year, which appeared for the first time last week (first print order: 2,500 copies). Edited by Jesuit Father Gerald Van Ackeren, 36, who got his doctorate in theology at Rome's Gregorian University, the Digest hopes to introduce more readers to the stimulating but sometimes forbiddingly highbrow discussions of religion and philosophy which...
Intelligently condensed and edited, Theology Digest should serve as a good primer for U.S. laymen (and as a refresher course for busy parish priests) in a field where a tradition of heavy-handed writing almost makes digests a happy necessity. It should also be a challenge to U.S. Catholics to start writing about theology more intelligently than they have been. Of the 22 authors whom the editors found worth quoting, only one is American, the rest are Europeans...
Died. Roger William Riis, 58, Reader's Digest roving editor who specialized in exposing food & drug rackets and airing consumer grievances ("The Truth About Smoking," "The Repairman Will Gyp You If You Don't Watch Out"); of a heart attack; in Stamford, Conn...
...JOHN) DANA TASKER resigned as executive editor of TIME to join Cowles Magazines, Inc. (Look and Quick), where he will fill the new job of editorial director. Tasker, an Amherst graduate ('25) taught English and coached track at Deerfield Academy before he joined the Reader's Digest as an associate editor. He left for Newsweek, which he edited three years, joined TIME 15 years ago. He was named assistant managing editor in 1946 and executive editor in 1951. While on TIME, he has been editor of most of TIME'S departments at one time or another. Since...