Word: digester
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inescapable wit of Twain--kept this city boy from Detroit fascinated through many of his grade school years. Perhaps, then, it was deja vu--memories of happy hours spent with Tom, Huck Finn, Becky Thatcher, Aunt Polly, and company--that motivated me to see what the Reader's Digest, making its debut as a film producer, had done to my old favorite in the process of adapting it into a movie musical...
Author Schreiber, a former psychiatry editor of Science Digest, says that she met Sybil Dorset (a pseudonym) in 1962 through Sybil's psychoanalyst, Cornelia Wilbur. Her bestselling book is fascinating, but also troubling. As a kind of psychiatric New Journalism, it has a fictive, popularized vividness that undermIné medical credibility...
...TAKES a long time for someone who was trained by a sexist system to digest the implications of '69 in the head. After four years I am weary of hard hitting, but I am still angry. And I live with that anger as the one unyielding signpost in my head. I still feel torn like an inbetween--I have my education in how to win a man and keep him built into me, and I often want to turn it on because it is less troublesome. But I feel sick when I do, as if caught...
...through the night." Are the 600,000 women who grabbed up Playgirl's first beefcake issue a new breed of female? "No, women are still worried about self-improvement. I throw in the sex, but I try to make Cosmo as much like the Reader's Digest...
...Hedley Donovan's Essay on "The Good Uses of the Watergate Affair" [May 14] is the most brilliant, illuminating and sustained dissection of the strength that is the American democratic "system" that the free world at large has ever had the good fortune to read, ponder and digest. CHARLES H. SMITH Hamilton, Bermuda...