Word: gist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pressure from black students, that rooming procedure was abandoned two years ago. Yet there were other incidents that clearly set the black students apart. Nancy Gist '69 said she "didn't expect to be accepted with open arms," but continuous questions from white students who wanted to understand "the secret workings of a black chick's mind" gave her the impression that she was at Wellesley not so much to study as to be observed by "middle class deb-types who had never seen an intellectually equal black...
...last year, New York City Housewife Florence Flast and six other taxpayers argued that far more than three pence of their tax money was involved in a federal aid-to-education program that paid for tutoring in parochial schools. But their case was dismissed for lack of "standing." The gist of "standing," the Supreme Court once explained, is whether a plaintiff's personal stake in the suit is enough "to assure sharp prosecution of the issues." And a taxpayer's stake has been held too small to support a suit contending that a federal expenditure exceeded Congress...
...author deserves to have the gist of his expose commented upon. Yes, (yawn...), many people at Harvard and elsewhere are dropping and shooting all kinds of funny things...
Such similarities are the gist of a provocative book by English Author Antony Jay called Management and Machiavelli (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc.; $4.95). Jay, a Cambridge-educated amateur historian, has an unabashed enthusiasm for Machiavelli. As a former television writer and editor for the British Broadcasting Corp. who has become an independent television consultant in London, he is fascinated by management. "The history of General Motors over the past 50 years," he says, "is far more important than the history of Switzerland or Holland." Mixing Machiavelli and management, Jay discovers some interesting and instructive corollaries between states and corporations...
...Perhaps aware of that reputation, Gilmore once wrote an article entitled "Great Teachers Should Be Taken Out and Shot." Its gist: pupils learn or not as they choose; teachers have little to do with...