Word: gist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brilliant portrait of one inhabitant of this psychic heartland, Mrs. India Bridge, mother of three, wife of a successful Kansas City lawyer. Written as a sequence of linked vignettes, Mrs. Bridge showed a remorseless accuracy and a comic sense powerful enough to reduce its subject to her feckless gist. (In the final scene, she has managed to get stuck inside her own garage. She is last seen tapping on the car window with the ignition key as she calls, to no one, "Hello? Hello out there...
Howard B. Waitzkin, a first-year medical student and co-chairman of the subcommittee that recommended the addition of the five community members, said that the subcommittee first tried to decide if it would be possible to get community representation on such a committee. "The gist of the preamble of our report is that it is impossible. We can just get community participation," he said...
...gist with ACE, said yesterday his organization has worked closely with university presidents...
...bureaucracy who are relatively optimistic about the state of the war were upset. For others, who believe the war effort is still going badly and that the Saigon government's position is not improving as it should, it was a welcome opportunity to get their view on record. The gist of some questions: What support would the anti-Communists in the South be able to muster if they had to compete politically with the National Liberation Front? Would the pacification effort survive another major Communist assault? What are the real prospects for the South Vietnamese army to hold...
...changes that Ethos seeks in Wellesley are so specific that they can be expressed in quantitative terms. "The thing that is important to me," Nancy Gist said, "is giving more black students a chance at higher education so they can affect change where its needed--in the big bad world...