Word: digester
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...began like any other for Berlinguer when he arrived at his small, book-filled office at Communist Party headquarters in Rome at 7:45 a.m. There he went over the press digest already prepared by his staff, and spent the better part of the forenoon on paperwork at his desk and meeting with other party officials. Then, accompanied by a few of his top aides, the party chief headed east of Rome in his chauffeur-driven, nut-colored Fiat-132 sedan. His destination: the mountain town of Avezzano in the Abruzzi region, a strong Christian Democrat preserve...
Vista del Amanecer, Cabrera's newest statement, published in 1974, is a grimly serious book, soaked with desperate humor. It is a collection of short pieces, difficult to define, few of them more than a page long, meditations on images in Cuban history. At worst they resemble Reader's Digest fillers, but at their best they are epiphanies. Each one presents a static image or a brief moment. To explain the colonial period, for example, they describe engravings: conquistadores meeting Indians, bloodhounds catching a runaway slave...
...Digest of Victories...
...Seven Pillars of Wisdom." The project took Mack, who also serves as the head of Harvard Medical School's psychiatric division and as a practicing analyst at Cambridge Hospital, over ten years to complete. And while the sheer volume of Mack's research makes the product somewhat hard to digest, the results of his "objective" study throw considerable light on just how psycho-historical analysis should be done...
...race, the Crimson also encountered its share of crabs and choppy water, but unfortunately it did not find the order as easy to digest, as this time it was the boats from Penn and Navy which bid au revoir to Harvard...