Word: gist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...painted and sculpted. From abstract expressionism onward, American art has been made only to illustrate their theories. The works are then fobbed off on a public of bourgeois status seekers who strive to soothe their guilt at being rich and successful by patronizing the New. Such is the gist of Wolfe's pamphlet. If it seems familiar, that is only because Wolfe did not invent philistinism...
...also, I suspect, a much more trying time for relatives of faculty and administrators. I asked my friend and roommate, who is the nephew of someone on the faculty, if that fact had made any impact on his experience at Harvard. He gave me a long answer, the gist of which was "It's hard to say," I could not agree more...
...startling admission, brought on largely by press inquiries. Rumors about the little-known Gibson's ties to the oil-shipping industry had been circulating in Washington since his selection, and they surfaced last week in a detailed article in the Wall Street Journal. The gist of the story...
...PEOPLE are seriously interested in what the individuals who testify before the committee are saying. Indeed, there seems little reason to make the testimony itself public if it would discourage open discussion. But it is important that the alternatives that the committee is discussing and the gist of their deliberations over each be disseminated to the public before the committee begins to hammer out its final recommendations this fall. Strauch strongly emphasizes that while he and most others on the committee have preferences, they are no where near any group resolutions. Discussions with other members of the committee tend...
That is the gist of a report in the Archives of Internal Medicine by three researchers-Drs. Arthur Simon of Duke University and Manning Feinleib of the National Heart and Lung Institute and Sociologist Angelo Alonzo of DePauw University. They base their conclusion on a year-long study of admissions to a single hospital in a suburb of Washington, D.C. During that period, 382 patients were brought to the hospital after complaining of symptoms of acute coronary disease; 138 of them were dead on arrival. By interviewing the surviving patients as well as the families of those who died...