Word: digester
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WHEN first I packed my grandmother's trunk to take to Radcliffe College, in it I put my A's from high school, my virginity, my square man who wouldn't screw, the articles my grandmother cut out of Reader's Digest, tears that came and wouldn't go for days on end, the parents I never had, and my black patent pocket book and patent heels with a black patent belt to match the heels and the pocket book. This three-piece patent suit I had bought at Saks Fifth Avenue for the history teacher I would adore...
...sure they found her, her A's under one arm, the Reader's Digest article under the other arm, a persistent virginity between her two children and her two legs, her black patent size seven heels on her two feet, and her father's death through her heart...
...Undercutting the SALT talks and undermining U.S. foreign policy? No, said Muskie, he was simply talking as a ''private citizen." The ploy is familiar: Richard Nixon used it when he hobnobbed with world leaders on a 1967 swing, ostensibly as a lawyer representing the Reader's Digest. The fact is that there are no private citizens on presidential campaign trails. Score one for agility, not indecision...
There will probably never be a more thorough, minute-by-minute account than Michener's of the three days of disorder that preceded the shooting. Michener drew on the determined legwork of two professional journalists from the Reader's Digest and twelve young reporters from local newspapers and the Kent School of Journalism. He also spent three months in Kent himself, at first sitting anonymously in bars on Water Street to get the feel of things, later operating out of a motel, where anyone with something to reveal knew where to find him. (Some students and academics would...
SOME FAVOR LESS obvious alterations. They have suggested that man be given the genes to produce a two-compartment stomach (a cow has four) that could digest cellulose; that mutation could be advantageous if man fails to increase his food supplies fast enough to feed the planet's growing population, but superfluous if he does. They also want man programmed to regenerate other organs, such as he now does with the liver, so that he can repair his damaged or diseased heart or lungs if necessary...