{"id":573891669,"date":"2019-10-18T22:05:07","date_gmt":"2019-10-19T02:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573891669"},"modified":"2019-10-20T15:35:25","modified_gmt":"2019-10-20T19:35:25","slug":"let-us-look-at-a-new-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2019\/10\/18\/let-us-look-at-a-new-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Let us look at a new book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Fall Break. The university gives the students the day off. Just the day, not a full week like you see in the spring. And since it was today, that means it really began in earnest on Wednesday or so. By yesterday afternoon the building had a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Night_of_the_Comet\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Night of the Comet<\/a> feel.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F13mpUTYS3E\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Fewer teens, yesterday and no zombies yesterday, though. Thankfully. We&#8217;re not really built or kitted out for zombies. And it would give the safety people fits.<\/p>\n<p>The zombies were today.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We&#8217;ve got a new book<\/strong> today. This is a Reader&#8217;s Digest from 1969, and it is the last one Reader&#8217;s Digest from my grandfather&#8217;s collection that I&#8217;ve inexplicably saved and will have to do something with. Like take photographs of the ads and make fun of them. They&#8217;re dusty and moldy and I&#8217;ve realized you have to wear a mask even to deal with them. The cover on this one is pretty rough &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/aubrabooks\/digest-apr69\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/aubrabooks\/digest-apr69\/img\/digest2-apr69.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>But some of the stuff inside is worth seeing, and in much better shape. If you click the cover you can see the first six samples from this issue. We&#8217;ll probably get about five or six weeks out of this book before we move on to some other piece. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/aubrabooks\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">If you click here, you can see all of the books<\/a> I&#8217;ve put on the site so far. There are eight textbooks, notebooks and magazines so far, and there&#8217;s a huge stack still to go. <\/p>\n<p>So, anyway, the April 1969 issue has ominous titles like &#8220;Is Congress Destroying Itself?&#8221; Still? Again? &#8220;Our Son is a Campus Radical.&#8221; Get in line. &#8220;Man vs. Virus,&#8221; Now you&#8217;re just trying to scare the parents of campus radicals. <\/p>\n<p>Another selection is &#8220;Can Baseball Be Saved?&#8221; Yes, Cal Ripken did it just 26 years later. I was watching at my grandparents house, where this book lived all those years, in fact the night he broke Lou Gehrig&#8217;s streak and did his lap around Camden Yard. It seems baseball is always in need of saving. Someone probably has to do it again these days. But we won&#8217;t read about it in Reader&#8217;s Digest, I bet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;NATO: An Alliance in Search of a Future.&#8221; I think we could all argue that&#8217;s a good thing. And a weird thing, given we were still at a high part of the Cold War when this was being written. &#8220;Frenzy on the Freeways,&#8221; but mass transit will save us all, I&#8217;m sure. &#8220;From the Brink of Extinction,&#8221; some themes stick around, what can I say?<\/p>\n<p><strong>But you want something<\/strong> a bit more contemporaneous, I hear you say. That&#8217;s fine. Here&#8217;s some sports television the Award-Winning <sup>TM<\/sup> sports crew produced last night:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G6d_mBLCSq0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a brief show, but they did it in one take, which I think was a first.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s your weekend like?<\/strong> We&#8217;ll have some beautiful weather, and we have to find ways to enjoy it all, while it lasts. I hope yours is incredibly long lasting. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Fall Break. The university gives the students the day off. Just the day, not a full week like you see in the spring. And since it was today, that means it really began in earnest on Wednesday or so. By yesterday afternoon the building had a Night of the Comet feel. 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