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...decisions be affected by the demonstrators outside." Richard Nixon actually said that last month, a couple of weeks after he had terror-bombed the Vietnamese for 12 consecutive days. And it we screamed and shouted for ten more years, Richard Nixon would still read his daily news digest, prepared by his staff as a substitute for television and newspapers, and bomb some more. No wonder Americans have begun to believe that solutions do not exist...
Farr wore the same light blue denim shirt and dark denim pants as the 3,700 other inmates, but there the similarity ended. One of the senior jail officials came by frequently to chat. "He was a reader of Intellectual Digest," Farr said. "We would discuss how to run the jail. He's very serious about trying to treat his prisoners differently, because he believes in the innocent-until-proven-guilty thing...
...Sartor is as they might have been written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Bulging with genius and philosophy, the poet paints the dusty jailhouse and the bumptious mayor of Batavia, N.Y. He records the hairs in the disappointed husband's stew, quotes upbeat statistics from the Reader's Digest. But with the same acceptance of reality he observes the growling of the mastiff bitch as dark spirits pass, repeals the laws of gravity at will and marks the fall of the dead ("And every soul, it passed me by, like the whizz of my cross-bow"). The Sunlight Dialogues...
Showplace. Nor was this enough. By the '50s, LIFE had grown big enough to tell a joke on itself: I'm a writer for LIFE. Really? I'm a photographer for the Reader's Digest. In truth, the magazine had been a showplace for fine writers for more than a decade. Now, it had a fan letter from the Papa of them all. "I'm very excited about the book and that it is coming out in LIFE," said the letter. "That makes me much happier than to have a Nobel Prize. To have...
After The Day of the Jackal any new book by Frederick Forsyth is likely to come on as a literary conglomerate. Flaunting its paperback and film sales, Reader's Digest condensation, etc., Odessa does just that. Its list of book clubs reads like the tag end of a distinguished obituary-member of Literary Guild, Saturday Review, Book Find and Playboy. Despite such signs of prosperity, the book is a mixed offering...