CHARTER INVITATION INTELLECTUAL DIGEST

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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 21, 2004
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'e mind is but a barren soil-a soil
which is soon exhausted, and will
duce hocrop, or only one, unless it
~4~ntinually fertilized and enriched
with foreign matter.
Sir Joshua Reynolds
H18110clual Digest
Dear Colleague:
The impulse that made you open an envelope printed backward, like
ours, reveals one of two commendable characteristics:
1. You've got one of those acrobatic minds capable of
grasping things not just in normal fashion, but from
unusual perspectives as well. (And you recognize a
bargain when you see it.)
2. You've got a lively sense of curiosity. (And you
recognize a bargain when you see it.)
If your sense of perspective and curiosity extends to keeping up
with what's being written and argued in the nation's leading journals
of politics, foreign affairs, medicine, sociology, philosophy, the
sciences, business, the arts ...
And if your sense of thrift likes not only saving money, but time ...
... welcome to INTELLECTUAL DIGEST, the new magazine
designed to keep your mind regularly "fertilized and
enriched with foreign matter" in approximately one-
sixteenth of the hours you'd normally have to spend.
With this letter, we invite you to become a Charter Subscriber to
INTELLECTUAL DIGEST and thereby to enjoy certain advantages and
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privileges -- among others, having a look at your first issue free,
and if you like it, saving half on your subscription.
INTELLECTUAL DIGEST derives from the fact that as a nation today,
we can no longer afford this country's traditional anti-intellectual
pretense -- the "Aw, shucks" attitude that prohibits the menfolk
from acknowledging any familiarity with music, art, theater and
that brands as eccentric such womenfolk as happen to have any
comprehension of matters like business, politics, foreign affairs.
We have a feeling that the continued existence of America depends
on men and women alike coming to a better understanding of the
myriad new ideas and phenomena that are shaping modern society ...
... ideas scientific, technological, sociological, economic,
political, psychological, philosophical, literary, dramatic,
artistic. As we said in our very first issue:
"What sufficed for a nation that insisted on using its
raw 'intelligence' to succeed is no longer adequate.
Intelligence stored up, and sorted out -- intellect --
is the new shorthand of survival."
Note an operative word here -- shorthand. For conciseness, too, is
central to the premise of INTELLECTUAL DIGEST. The number of publi-
cations devoted to concerns of the mind has proliferated astonishingly
in recent years. But the amount of time at your disposal has not
grown by a minute, and by any bedside, 300-some publications -- the
number we cull from for each issue -- is quite a formidable pile.
What our Editors do is to plow through that pile for you, much as
a first-class staff assistant preselects the mail and reports that
get through. We look it all over. We screen out the irrelevant.
And when it seems advisable, we edit -- but only in collaboration
with the original author so as to avoid any chance of dilution or
distortion.
Some of the journals we cull from are probably familiar to you.
Saturday Review. Fortune. Others you may know by reputation.
Daedalus. Commentary. Encounter. Commonweal. Dissent.
Foreign Affairs. Paris Review.
Still others you may not know at all unless you are in
the professions they serve. The American Psychologist.
Science Journal. Physics Today. Annals of Internal
Medicine.
They're periodicals that, taken together, represent the
finest in contemporary reportage, and that also reflect
every shade of political opinion -- left, middle, right.
(Given the number and variety of our sources, it could
not be otherwise: 34 journals of opinion; 27 magazines
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of the arts; 136 scientific journals; 38 literary
magazines; 67 social science periodicals!)
Our magazine comes to you illustrated throughout with candids,
portraits, political cartoons, whatever helps in getting the text
across quickly. But our richest coloring comes less from the
illustration than from the quality of the writing ...
... writing chosen for its bite. From Commonweal, Michael Harrington
in INTELLECTUAL DIGEST on the politics of pollution:
"For we have now recognized that the failure of the
market system is basic to our current environmental
crisis. Air and water were considered to be 'free'
resources. Therefore a corporation which would in-
vest enormous amounts of time and money in. figuring
out how to economize the costs of labor and capital
did not give a second thought to using and destroy-
ing rivers, lakes and the atmosphere ..."
... writing chosen for its courage. From Public Interest, Sociologist
Robert Nisbet in INTELLECTUAL DIGEST on the twilight of authority:
"The most dangerous intellectual aspect of the
contemporary scene is the widespread refusal of
thinking men to distinguish between authority and
power. They see the one as being as much a threat
to liberty as the other. But this way lies madness
-- and the ultimate sovereignty of power! There can
be no possible freedom in society apart from authority ..."
... writing chosen for its conviction. From John Canaday's new
book, "Culture Gulch," the noted critic on F-111, a series of 51
panels by pop artist James Rosenquist exhibited by the Metropolitan
Museum:
"Sometimes I think F-111 comes off worse than the
Museum does. At other times, I think the Museum
comes off worse than F-111 does ..."
INTELLECTUAL DIGEST is new in premise, new in concept, and new in
format. As a result, asking you to subscribe to it sight unseen
would be, perhaps, somewhat unfair. And so we do not ask that
you merely take our word for it:
We invite you to become a Charter Subscriber only after you have
examined your first issue free -- compliments of the house. If you
hate it, no obligation. Just scrawl "cancel" across your bill, and
that's that. The sample issue is yours to keep.
If, on the other hand, you find that our premise has merit, your
advance reservation on our Charter roster puts you in a happy
position:
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YOU SAVE HALF IMMEDIATELY. Others will pay $10 for
12 issues. Charter Subscribers pay only $5. You
get the magazine at half price -- an immediate
savings of $5, or 50 per cent.
PREFERENTIAL RATES IN PERPETUITY. Charter Subscribers
like yourself are guaranteed of receiving always.the
lowest possible rate no matter what price increases
may be required -- on all renewals, on all gifts.
The printed folder enclosed with this letter gives you some idea
of the caliber of critics and pundits you'll be encountering in
our pages, and some inkling of what's currently on their minds.
Look the folder over, but please don't delay in reserving your
first issue.
Just as the magazines we cull from are limited in circulation, so
must we be, and in fairness to all, Charter Subscription reservations
can be honored only on a first-come, first-served basis. To avoid
disappointment, it might be wise to send for your free copy now.
All the more so since you'll have plenty of time after the issue
arrives to come to a final decision about subscribing.
Cordially yours,
James B. Horto
JBH/mag
P.S. For fun, we've just added up the amount you'd have to pay if
you were to subscribe individually to the 300-some periodicals we
scan for you -- over $2,000 a year.
And that's not counting what you'd pay for the many books we excerpt
(at least four in each issue), nor the three bound-in newsletters
that come to you in each issue (special reports on the arts, on
science, and on social science and education.)
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"YOU YOURSELF MAY NAME PASSED THIS
WOMAN many times on Madison or Fifth
Avenue, and it might well be that her simple
taste, and the quiet colors of her clothes
would not merit a glance from you. But if
you came upon her sitting quietly some-
where, you could not ignore her. Her seren-
ity is capitivating."
In addition to regular bound-in newsletters in such
disciplines as the social sciences and education;
on science, and on the arts ... and to pertinent se-
lections from important new books... Intellectual
Digest with each issue puts into your hands in one
indispensable magazine 34 journals of opinion, 27
magazines of the arts. 136 scientific journals. 38
literary magazines, and 67 social science periodi-
cals. Among other publications our magazine keeps
you current with - some professional, others not:
American Psychologist
Antioch Review
Commonweal
Daedalus
Encounter
Nation
New Society
Paris Review
Partisan Review
Physics Today
Ramparts
Science Journal
Trans-action
University Review
Washington Monthly
The unreadable we reject. What you'll find instead
are nontechnical and lively stories written by such
master critics and pundits as
McGeorge Bundy
Eric Bentley
John Canaday
Kenneth Clark
Milovan Djilas
Robert L. Heilbroner
Ada Louise Huxtable
Joseph Wood Krutch
Irving Kristol
Arthur Koestler
Herbert Marcuse
T. S. Matthews
Susan Sontag
Gore Vidal
Subject matter? Virtually unlimited. Among other
titles: Presidential Reporters and Presidential Poli-
tics ? An Interview with Chester Himes ? The Future
of Egg Transplantation ? Letters of Aidous Huxley
? Why People Play Poker ? Black Students at White
Colleges ? Foundations and the New Class War ?
The Hippies as Contrameritocracy ? An Essay on
Liberation ? The Riddle of Stanford Ovshinsky ?
The Politics of Pollution ? The Biology of Human
Behavior
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The assessment above', From a critique by
the noted observer. Antoni Grcnwicz. Intellec-
tual Digest came upon his piece in the highly
meritorious new magazine of The American
Center of P. E. N. (Poets, Essayists and Nov-
elists) - one of more than three hundred
weekly, monthly and quarterly journals we
scan regularly for article provocative, sig-
nificant, illuminating..
The lady with the ''captivating serenity"?
None other than Greta Lovisa Gustafsson,
perhaps better known as Garbo, and quite
possibly the only phenomenon in the world
that most of our contributors and readers
would agree on.
For agreement is not something our editors
strive for, nor wish for on your part. Whether
our subject is theatre or war -- or science,
sociology literature, politics, psychology, an-
thropology, philosophy, foreign affairs, art,
medicine, history -- what we aim to supply
is fodder for making up your own mind. Read
the article! Examine the facts! Consider the
arguments! Think! By way of starters, for ex-
ample, have a go at some additional ideas,
observations, judgments from Intellectual
Digest that you'll find.
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certainly well below those entertained by "square" fantasies. There are known
cases of beautiful girls having lived many months in Hippie communities
and remaining virgins.
For a long time we'll probably have to work as hard as ever. The basic
reason why carefree abundance and leisure are not likely to fall into our laps
like fruit may be put very simply. The more time we save in making goods,
the more time we spend providing services.
Late in March 1944, a young cardiologist at the United States Naval
Hospital in Bethesda, Lt. Comdr. Howard G. Bruenn, had an emergency
summons from his superiors. He was requested to conduct a heart
examination the next day; his patient would be the President of the
United States ...
It may be objected that as so notoriously inhibited as the Victorian period
was the first phase could accomplish nothing at all in the area of sexual
freedom. Yet it is important to recall that as sexual suppression in the form of
"prudery" reached a crisis in this period, only one course out of it was
possible - relief.
Though most central cities are now aware of their ghetto populations only
as a source of trouble and calamity, one can predict with considerable
confidence that ten years from now these same central cities will be fighting
tooth-and-nail to hold on to these populations, as they too begin to
experience the attractions of urban life outside our major urban centers.
Boredom is one of the least understood, least appreciated forces in
human history. A few years ago, the scientist Harlow Shapley listed boredom
as third among the five principal causes of world destruction. Today
it might seriously be considered first.
Village organizations, as well as schools and factories. are expected to
copy the methods and habits of the army administration, and a number
of organizations have been divided, military style, into battalions, companies,
platoons, and sections. If this spreads, then China, with or without the
communist party, will become an ocean of military barracks.
Anyone who knows anything about writers is well aware that even if they
band together at congresses they remain eccentric individuals. True, I know
a good many who cling with touching devotion to their revolwtionary
heirlooms, who make use of communism, that burgundy-colored plush sofa
with its well-worn springs, for afternoon reveries. But even these
conservative "progressives" are split into one-man factions. each of
which reads Marx in his own way.
Many explanations are given for the rebellion in the colleges and high
schools-the students demand Student Power, blacks want community
control, and administrators say they need more money: but nobody wants to
suggest that maybe so much schooling for so many is not a good idea. In my
opinion, the majority of so-called students in college and high schools
do not want to be there and ought not to be.