Word: gist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...norms, was getting too much for even barnyard critics to take. Last week Moscow's Literary Gazette, newspaper of the writers' union, published a letter reflecting the collective complaints of 19,000 "milkmaids, swineherds, calf-maids, gardeners, field hands, tractor drivers and collective farm chairmen.'' Gist: Soviet writers should stop filling their novels with foolishly detailed descriptions of farm chores they know nothing about and calling the result literature...
Undersecretary of State Douglas Dillon gave this today as the gist of last weekend's talks between President Eisenhower and Khrushchev on trade, a priority item for the Soviet Premier...
...Next, the half brother interviews Sebastian's secretary and literary executor, a fatuous bundle of sociological cliches. Then there are Sebastian's two mistresses. As the investigator probes on, it is not one Sebastian Knight who emerges, but a different Sebastian for every relationship. The gist of the secret that the half brother learns is "that the soul is but a manner of being-not a constant state-that any soul may be yours, if you find and follow its undulations...
...week's end, Ezra Benson called in the press, read a letter he had sent to Mitchell. Its gist: "The proposed regulations . . . retain the concept of federal intervention and administrative control and regimentation that is contrary to the principles of this Administration and that is so repugnant to agriculture." Benson's remedy for the migrants: more study...
Whiplash Currents. Why does Mizoguchi hate the Golden Temple? Novelist Mishima answers in many ways, none completely successful. The gist of it is that Japan, Author Mishima implies, has been hemmed in to the point of impotence by the worship of ancestors, ritual and beauty. In this sense, Temple belongs to recent, agonizing reason-why literature, in which Japanese writers are still covertly psychoanalyzing the loss of World War II. Mizoguchi is both poor and common, and Temple champions a kind of cultural revolt of the masses, with its rejection of all that is feudal and aristocratic. There...