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Wildmon seems sincerely convinced the networks are willfully wrecking America. He wrote recently in Conservative Digest, which Viguerie publishes, that networks "by design" have taught that "sexual immorality, violence, profanity, vulgarity, etc. were values worthy of imitation and emulation." On the deepest level, Wildmon and his fellow protesters yearn for a society-wide reaffirmation of the tradition of childhood innocence. They think children should be shielded from too much worldly knowledge too soon. Because the conservatives place so much emphasis on family and parenthood, they are ready to sacrifice adults' freedom of choice. There is a gruff, honest passion...
...spare time he farms and reads, often condensed books in Rearder's Digest. "I'm basically a very ordinary person," he acknowledges. Putnam's unassuming personality makes it easy to underestimate the depth of his convictions--particularly the conviction that financial security is the key to Harvard's future. Like most other Corporation members, he prefers to leave the educational matters to the Faculty...
DIED. Hoyt Fuller, 57, educator and literary critic who, as managing editor of Negro Digest and its successor Black World between 1961 and 1976, helped turn the magazine into a showcase for the nation's finest black writers; of a heart attack; in Atlanta...
...cultural scale. Scarf Press and David C. Cook have issued Bibles in comic-strip form. There are also vulgar paraphrases of the New Testament aimed at young "Jesus people," as well as curious "chronological Bibles," which purport to rearrange events in exact "historical" order. Reader 's Digest is at work on a condensed Bible. By 1982 it will cut the Old and New Testaments nearly in half, by trimming out repetitions and wordiness rather than by chopping chapter and verse...
...meetings with him. "Wally is the genius, all right," said a friend, "but Lila unwrapped him." He himself called her his "pillar of strength," and he would often stop to praise "that incredible and wonderful woman." They entertained rarely, and their few guests were usually Digest staffers. When they dined alone, they would, in younger days, dance for 15 minutes after dinner...