Word: digestism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Scattershot Blasts. The Douglas committee's majority report, packed with economist's gobbledygook and lofty theory, was hardly suited for the political stump. But the Democratic Digest gave party spokesmen a free-swinging indictment of the Administration for use in handy quotation. Economic growth "under Eisenhower-Nixon has been miserably slow," trumpeted the Digest. What gains the country did achieve "have heavily favored the moneylenders as compared with farmers, small businessmen and workers." Republican "budget-first fiscal policies" have callously ignored the aged, the infirm, the unemployed, the farmers, the jammed schools and the blighted cities...