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Word: digestable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...read all these books," asks a miner, pointing to a filled shelf. "I skim them," Time and again the books stay blurred; the brown blur could be a first edition Kant, the redder blur could be Bible, but they could just as well be part of the Reader's Digest set of Condensed Books. Imagine Sylvester Stallone re-making Rocky by leaving out all the fight seenes; John Byrum evidently...

Author: By Clark J. Freshman, | Title: Big Mouth Finds the Meaning of Life | 10/27/1984 | See Source »

...teaches bacteria to communicate in English. An introduction to his accomplishment more than suffices: "The description of experiments which occupies later chapters of Eruntics is unbelievably boring by virtue of its pedantry, prolixity, and continued interlarding of the text with photograms, tables, and graphs which make it difficult to digest." A five-volume History of Bitic Literature is conveniently boiled down to prefaces from the first and second editions. They trace the evolution of the computer from a programmed and hence "unthinking" machine into a dazzling array of autonomous intelligences, producing unbidden works of literature, "bitic texts which in varying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sci-Phi | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

...however, Kodavision has got mixed reviews. Television Digest with Consumer Electronics, a trade newsletter, rates it "an extremely easy-to-use, easy-to-handle instrument but one that currently falls short of achieving the best possible results to be realized from the top quality half-inch equipment today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video Wars | 9/10/1984 | See Source »

PREACHERS. The young Turks have formed a wary alliance with the crusaders and polemicists of the New Right. These include Richard Viguerie, the guru of direct-mail fund raising and publisher of Conservative Digest, Paul Weyrich of the Committee for the Survival of a Free Congress, and Terry Dolan of the National Conservative Political Action Committee (NCPAC). Their avatar is Senator Helms of North Carolina. But one of the New Right leaders concedes, "We could go with Jack Kemp. We like him. But we still have to see whether he has the guts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Struggling for a Party's Soul | 9/3/1984 | See Source »

...Chamberlain, the British Prime Minister who tried to appease Hitler in 1938, for Reagan's willingness to appease pragmatists on the deficit. The New Right's special targets are the preppies and pragmatists; George Bush has been the subject of some of the bitterest stories in Conservative Digest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Struggling for a Party's Soul | 9/3/1984 | See Source »

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