Word: gist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Francisco Chronicle. Tyler was responding to a letter he had received from the Unabomber that came with a copy of the terrorist's as yet unpublished 35,000-word anti-technology manifesto. The correspondence followed remarks that the professor made about the case to the press. The gist of Tyler's message to the Unabomber: your manifesto raises some valid points, but none that justify blowing people...
Fortunately for those of us who hadn't had agood meal recently, they chose to find facts overlobster savannah at a private room at Locke Ober.As I recall, the gist of their report on ourreporting was that, like all journalists, wesometimes screwed up, but the paper wasn't beingrun by SDS. The complaining alumni went away, andsome financed the Harvard Independent instead...
...could see how someone might decide that it's appropriate, that is gets the gist of the piece across clearly and succinctly...
...gist of the policy is to get the tutors to eat in their own houses. Eating meals in the dining halls provides an opportunity for tutors to get to know students," said Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 in a telephone interview last night...
...native New Yorker, Gewanter studied writing and literature at Madison and Berkeley. His own college projects tended towards the esoteric, including a one-act drama starring a deconstructionist who is charged with writing a bomb threat. (The gist of the excessively postmodern plot is derived from Foucault's "What is Author?" essay. It will not be airing after Married With Children anytime soon...