Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 15, 1975, Winnipeg, Manitoba New Leisure Winnipeg free press saturday. November 15, 1975 features i i m too much Reading makes people inwardly Uncertain and mentally immature. It suffocates Independent thought and Eften thus spoke Herr Theodor Ruth in his Spracher Galtung und Buch published in 1961. A Good cold water argument to throw on to your burning shame at being behind in your read ing. In fact we re All behind in our Reading. Ask anyone. They will very quickly fall to groaning about How much Reading they have to catch on. If any thing the marriage of wide spread advanced education with electronic Media consumerism has produced hordes of people who arc guilt Ridden about he Quantity of their Reading. Al most everyone piously intends to catch up on their Reading someday. Vij e a n w h i 1 a increasing numbers of readers resort to All Hinds of Dodges and sneaky shortcuts to reduce the mount ing backlog of unread books and articles. One such Dodge is Hie Book review. How Many of our friends and acquaintances re sort to Reading the half Page Book review instead of the 300 Page Book if the Friend is adroit he can to barn booze you with an hour of witty talk spun out of 10 minutes of furtive Reading. Book review magazines such As the new York times and London times literary supplements feed a hungry multitude eager for simulated Reading. Another shortcut to being Well read is the digest. Scholars and scientists Long ago Learned to Cope with the Avalanche of publication in their Fields by assiduously Reading their abstracts or periodicals devoted to digests of current books theses and articles. An occasional attack of curiosity provoked by a digest can quickly be managed by Dis tasteful expedient of buying and Reading the real Book itself. The universality of the digest tread is evidenced by the in creasing tendency of specialists to speak in generalities and by their growing avoidance of con Crete examples and Fine details. Today s doctorate generally Means that the bearer is an authority Only on that narrow slice of knowledge covered by his doctoral dissertation. But the rest of us carpenters and Cordwainer a teachers and teamsters we Loo. Are. Faced with an embarrassment of read ing matter mailed with a slender Reading Lime allotment. What to do Well we can follow the example of our specialists and doctors. We too can read re views abstracts and digests. For the general Reader there have always been Book digests and magazines devoted to selecting and presenting Brief condensations of major current periodical literature. By Larry gelled the most famous of All the condensed Reading magazines the readers digest has just been declared in Canadian by a controversial act of parliament. The readers digest by printing a Canadian edition has assuredly pumped millions of dollars of our Money out of the country. Bui considered As a sprightly will packaged bit of compact and condensed Reading Tiu readers1 digest was a Welcome monthly Friend to generations of Manil bans Ucb Coors and newfound Landers. Indeed even the sophisticates of our metro Politan province Ontario Sorn umps read it. Small considering that to t offered you the rom fort that its pages kept you up to Date on the Best from Alt current publications. Now that the requiem mass for the digest has been Sung under the gothic gargoyles of parliament we May intone a condensed Eulogy Over its sombre abbreviated Bier. Bear friends of the late Ca Nadian Magazine come shed your tears on these Pink surf Glossy pages. When we Laboured in the night of childish Igno Rance who Carne to feed us with condensed Wisdom who but the digest when passed through the Vale of doubt who came to inform us of iht1 dangers of communism the infallibility of the United stairs who but the driest who enriched us with Lac run i zoology of Freud Kinsey find Richard Nixon in deed but the digest who taught us to uu1 Sii of sexual Inadequacy and to find a Jace in to grouping Mio sch nod us the of mania . Stir Viive viol one yid pollution us to shun the mad ways Bumin Rnic to m ethos of greed surely ii it you alone moribund the but proudly rank not least among our benefactors. Peace be upon your tortured Shade. In the regions of your exile May you find a new Balm of Gilead and a source of excess but after All the obsequies Are after much wiping of eyes and wringing of hands some thing remains a memory of a lasting legacy. The Reader s of always bore in each month s Issue several pages were shrines to the inveterate word Lover. Of such Hal Lowed substance was the feature Mizied test your word Power. Remember your bruised Dis May when you Only managed a fair ruling remember your when you managed to a Tirc a excellent in the Woilus. Charmed Page the i Utun called spam h. K was a smallish print Dir to for fabulous fragments of Rutili Prfu Here Ino d reverence the Forte of to Thrish 3? Iii Boll built out of a ords. The slow punctuation Fin hic a in the in like an unmade bed t tit bureaucratic of our re socks As a ;