Word: digestism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...State Department and the CIA are only two of six federal agencies that employ China watchers; the White House even has a watcher, Georgia-born Alfred Jenkins, to watch the watchers and digest their draconology for the President. There is even a role for the old-fashioned spy-though 90% of the outside world's information about
Along with other consumer items, the U.S. public is now paying more for magazines. Last month Reader's Digest and Look raised their newsstand price from 350 to 500. TIME increased from 40? to 50?. Last year the Saturday Evening Post and the Saturday Review jumped from 25? to 35?. Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report rose from 35? to 40?, Cosmopolitan and Redbook from 35? to 50?. Holiday spurted from 60? to 75?, Town & Country from...
Sound like the Reader's Digest...
Slightly larger than the Digest in size, Sputnik contains many pages of color reproductions. The monthly is also chock full of advertisements for Soviet products ranging from caviar to hand-woven rugs to Moskvich automobiles, and it welcomes advertising from abroad. All in all, Sputnik is an uninhibited pitch to U.S. tourists to come and spend their money in Russia...
...clever man in the usual sense. He was certainly no intellectual and read little but the Saturday Evening Post, Reader's Digest and a western or two. He was not imaginative, and perhaps this was just as well; unlike his friend George Patton, he never developed fantasies of being a reincarnation of one of Alexander the Great's captains. Nor could he speak, as Douglas MacArthur could, like Henry V before Harfleur. Yet the conclusion is inevitable that the war was too serious to be left to anyone but this general...