Word: conspectus
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...theme of this year's Biennale-that vast, sprawling international conspectus of current art that opens at irregular intervals in the public gardens of Venice and is one of the city's main tourist attractions-is "Dalla Natura All'Arte, Dall'Arte Alla Natura" (from nature to art, from art to nature). Appropriately, then, the star of the 1978 press week was not an artist but an animal...
...what has been achieved, or any appreciation of the deeper meaning underlying it. Perhaps the American's inveterate suspicion of ideologies restrains him. And, after all, what he has to contribute is not so much another and alternative competing ideology, but something more complex and subtle, a conspectus of a whole way of living, a web of practices, attitudes, insights, areas of compromise and of no compromise...
...Indians. In this communication occurs the original usage of the word "back-woods." The list of Americanisms and the dates upon which they first attained their peculiar U. S. connotation, reported Professor Craigie, "already forms a basis on which a dictionary could be compiled which would present a fair conspectus of the history of American English." Samples...
Nominally, it is an annual report that President Butler of Columbia University has submitted to his trustees. Actually he has presented a world conspectus which is, at the very least, sober and comes very near to being pessimistic. Reversing President Butler's order of presentation, we find that we live today under a new-paganism in which individual appetite or impulse has replaced the belief in law, whether in Heaven or on earth. For this state of affairs the universities, according to President Butler, must bear their share of guilt. And from the universities the lusting after false gods...
...Francke, describes the two most important acquisitions of the year, gives the balance now at the disposal of the Germanic Museum Association, and emphasizes the importance of bringing Germany and the United States into close relations of mutual confidence and helpfulness by rounding out the Museum into a comprehensive conspectus of the history of Germanic culture...