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...article called "What Wives Don't Know About Sex." A flood of letters from readers suggested that do-it-yourself sex could be as gripping a topic for Digestion as the magazine's Pollyanna sagas of man against wilderness or science against cancer-the kind of uplift dear to Digest Editor (and Founder) DeWitt Wallace, son of a Presbyterian preacher. After a clinical follow-up piece on "What Husbands Don't Know About Sex," the magazine last June invited its readers to join Gynecologist Marion Hilliard in exploring "The Act of Love: Woman's Greatest Challenge...
Benign and serene on a telenquiry program in Chicago, white-maned Conductor Leopold Stokowski, who admits to 70, disclosed that baton-waving gives him both uplift and insomnia: "It's a mystery to me, but one receives enormously something back from the music. It makes me feel strong. After a concert I hear the music all night. I can't sleep that night. All night I hear the music, and I hear the bassoons and the oboes and the different instruments." His view of applause for a performance? "What would you suggest as an alternative to applause? Supposing...
...that whatever is worth doing is worth doing well." He gave Prometheus a dirty look and went back to work. But he stayed an hour overtime that day, worked clean through the liver, and got a good start on the pyloric sphincter. Prometheus went right on thinking about moral uplift, but he was careful to do so in silence...
Ectoplasmic Uplift. Lerner deserves credit for recognizing, in disagreement with the Toynbee-esque patternmakers, that the U.S. is not merely a subdivision of Western civilization but, despite acknowledged Western roots, a truly new world under the sun. Yet this vision, like a few others, just barely flickers through the verbal fog banks. Readers who get as far as page 673 will sharply question Lerner's assertion that the U.S. is in a "moral interregnum," distrusting the old gods and uncertainly waiting for new ones, and that (page 947) America is on a descending arc of "inner social and moral...
...Germany's Berthold Beitz, general manager of Krupp Industries, suggested that the job of economic world uplift is too big for the investors of any one country, instead proposed that investors form a multi-nation investment association in much the same manner that six individual contracting companies joined together to build the Hoover Dam. Such pooling, said Industrialist Beitz, would provide "a great new source of investment capital." It would be a private world bank that would receive and that would lend local currencies for investment anywhere in the world...