Word: digests
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Conservative Digest (circ. 85,000). Published by Richard Viguerie, the New Right's master fund raiser, this monthly calls itself "the magazine for the new majority" and talks tough about "neutralizing liberals" and putting prayer back in politics...
...persona and also avoid another parody-the straw-filled scarecrow wild man the Carter people created. Reporting gave the voters a plausible portrait of a 9-to-5 executive, only passably informed, given to exaggerated remarks but cautious in action, who wants complicated problems reduced to Reader's Digest brevity, then decides about them without heartburn...
...astonishing thing about Russian art of this period is its sustained inventiveness. Artists who based their work on the available prewar styles of avant-garde art - mainly Fauvism, cubism and futurism -were able to digest and develop them with tremendous speed and urgency, leaping beyond their prototypes like pole vaulters. To see this at work, one need only look at the development of Vladimir Tallin's sculpture after his first contact with Picasso's tin cubist Guitar, 1912, in Paris, or at the conviction with which Kasimir Malevich moved from cubism to a purely abstract painting...
...from certain senate Republican circles, Dole offering a prime example. And the Kemp-Roth proposal for balancing the budget, which includes a massive tax cut, has been the object of flirtation for many politicos. Martin Feldstein, professor of Economics, has characterized the Kemp-Roth proposal as something "politicians can digest in thirty seconds and discuss for months...
...firm also publishes Barron's, the Asian Wall Street Journal, Book Digest and the 20 community newspapers of the Ottaway group...