Word: digester
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...title is pretentious and a trifle intimidating. Intellectual Digest, moreover, sounds like a contradiction in terms; scholarly writing is almost by definition lengthy and leisured. Yet Editor Martin Goldman has managed in only one year to make the concept work. The monthly mixture of excerpted articles and books, commissioned artwork and original offbeat interviews has doubled in circulation to 400,000 and is approaching the black-ink border...
...17th century. He navigated the coast of New England down as far as Cape Cod, and pursued inland lakes and rivers to their sources exploring New France. He could not swim. He never managed to learn any Indian language. He had almost no sex life. But he could digest anything. He was also brave and resourceful, as well as the best mapmaker and navigator...
...advertise several times a day over WEEI that its Decor "defies description." The shelves of the "priceless antiques" are lined with Readers Digest Condensed Books. Germaine Greer, Bobby Orr, Spiro T. Agnew, Margaret Mead and others are illuminated in apostolic garb against the far wall. At best, the decor can be described as eclectic, at worst, obscene...
...unusual reprimand of one of the nation's most prominent doctors is in response to Knowles' continuing criticism of his colleagues. He has frequently taken advantage of newspaper and television interviews to question physicians' ethics. Last February, in the Intellectual Digest, he charged that some 30% to 40% of American doctors are "making a killing" in medicine, some by performing "incredible amounts of unnecessary surgery." Though no one can pinpoint the amount, many doctors agree that there is much superfluous surgery. Incomes are high; the median is more than $40,000 a year, while some private practitioners...
...Braden and Frank Mankiewicz accused the Administration of retreating in the campaign against hunger; the same day the White House sent a message to Congress asking for an extra $1 billion for federal food-distribution programs. Marquis Childs mentioned that Nixon got his news daily from a one-page digest; the summary is always much longer, and on the day of the Childs column it was 51 pages...