Word: digester
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sometimes claimed. When a Kissinger aide prepared a National Security Council briefing book on NATO for Nixon, Kissinger was impressed by it but ordered it rewritten nonetheless-to make it easier for the President to read. "Don't ever write anything more complicated than a Reader's Digest article for Nixon," he advised...
...Humphrey's committees. It's an incredible story of a brilliant man who has stood up. There're a lot of brilliant men around--Nader, Galbraith, Gardner--but they didn't want to take the abuse. Stanley's been a brilliant thinker for industry--he invented the Reader's Digest insert of the flag decal that you can tear out and put on car windows. He has a brilliant, inventive and practical mind, with an ability to articulate brilliant ideas very simply...
...master class is unquestionably the most pressured forum for a student and teacher working together. A student must perform for teacher and audience and is expected to adapt a master's suggestions to his playing with little time to digest the advice, let alone work on it. A cello teacher, on the other hand, must gear his advice to the student so that the audience of cellists and non-cellists, musicians and non-musicians can profit from the class...
...Each vignette presents a static scene or a brief incident. For the colonial period, they describe engravings: conquistadores meeting Indians, bloodhounds catching a runaway slave. For modern times, many of them comment on photographs: a revolutionary commander, terrorists dead in a ditch. At worst, these pieces resemble Reader's Digest fillers, but at their best they are epiphanies...
Gignoux said last night the section that will be released is "just a digest of the views which were expressed by the students before the committee," and that it is unlikely to contain observations about the Law School that will surprise students there...