Word: gist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Howe is far from angry. One of the last of Boston's gentleman-writers-he was the reputed model for Horatio Willing, the biographer-friend of The Late George Apley-Mark Howe is a calm and gentle writer of calm and gentle books. This week Howe celebrates his gist birthday with the publication of Sundown, a thin volume of verse, his 36th published work. While Howe's poetry is often as amateurish as his performance on the recorder, his poems have the nostalgic appeal of a Victorian valentine. "The trouble is," says Howe, "they're too comprehensible...
...however, did not agree with Spaak that the "whys and wherefores" of Soviet relaxation were unimportant. The U.S. noted soberly that Molotov's conciliation was born of Soviet weakness and Western pressure. This was the gist of Dulles' speech at San Francisco (see below), and the key to the frame of mind that President Eisenhower would carry to the Parley at the Summit. The U.S. waited to be shown what tangible results could be distilled from the new optimism at San Francisco...
India's Krishna Menon was the first to arrive. Fresh from Peking, he carried a proposition from the Red Chinese. Its gist: Chou Enlai, fearing U.S retaliation, has given up the notion of forcibly taking Formosa. The Red Chinese had shown their peaceful intentions by releasing four U.S. flyers (TIME, June 13); soon, Menon cooed, he thought the eleven other flyers still held prisoner in China would be released, too. In return, Menon hinted, it might be helpful if the Chinese Nationalists quietly abandoned Quemoy and Matsu...
...Illinois, a defendant who loses a tort suit and does not pay the damages can be jailed if "malice is the gist of the action." And as charged in Theresa's suit, Alma "maliciously" alienated Roy Fergerson's affections. She could thus be jailed at the wronged woman's discretion, and last week she was. Willingly, the first Mrs. Fergerson paid the jail fees for incarcerating the second: $1 admission and $3.50 weekly. "This whole thing is silly," wailed Alma, who can be kept in jail for six months. Snug at home, the former Mrs. Fergerson trilled...
...crew issued a new deadline: they would not man the ship beyond the Nicobar Islands at the entrance to the Malacca Strait. Sadly, the Re-Be Co. sent a message to Peking through its Hong Kong agents. The Far East Enterprising Co. (HK) Ltd. Its gist: the Aruba could go no farther; if the Reds want their jet fuel, they will have to come...