Word: gist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...France, that the Paris accords would never be ratified. But though the Communists talked furiously, it was the massive Socialist campaign that was doing the most harm. In town after town, the SPD was whipping up German youths to riot against rearmament, circulating petitions and questionnaires whose loaded questions (gist: Do you want unity or do you want war?) led Konrad Adenauer to exclaim that these were the same techniques used by the Nazis and Communists...
...last question led back to the gist of the news. Malenkov and Khrushchev had both been on both sides of the planning issues, and both had been involved in recent failures for which Malenkov took the blame. Since lines could not be drawn in terms of political issues, personal rivalry was suggested as the explanation. But personal struggle for power goes on in all nations. Why among the Communists does it take the form of upheaval, purge, false confession? Why can't they, nearly 40 years after their revolution, get their power struggle channeled into the institutions of orderly...
...just been announced that Singer Klose, like Baritone Josef Hermann before her, was switching over to Berlin's State Opera under a three-year contract. On top of the reaction of Municipal Opera's fans, its famed director, Carl Ebert, 67, himself snapped an angry farewell. Its gist: his artists should not only be good singers but good citizens. Once they have gone, Klose and Hermann will not be allowed to sing again for the company, even as guests. The reason for all the fuss was simply that the Municipal Opera is in Berlin's British sector...
...change in Russia . . . Tensions have now subsided." Tito tenaciously discoursed upon Yugoslavia's Socialism in heavily accented English, but when he left the subject of Asia behind, the Indian M.P.s lost interest and began chattering to one another. Tito also talked alone with Nehru for ten hours. The gist of his message: Malenkov is less ambitious than Stalin and lacks Stalin's iron will; Malenkov considers that Stalin committed ideological errors in his last years, and now concedes that different countries (e.g., Yugoslavia, India) may follow their own chosen paths to Socialism...
...Shoop (CrewCuts; Mercury). "C'mon, baby, I need your love tonight," is the gist of this message, unless the title means something else. The male quartet that smashed the top with Sh-Boom is probably going to repeat its success with this unpleasant item...