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Sculptivity--working with clay to express your gist...
...busy as George Bush is these days, when two prior occupants of the Oval Office ask for an audience it would be impolitic to turn them down. Thus last week former Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter got 50 minutes of the President-elect's time to present the gist of a two-volume American Agenda report produced by a bipartisan staff of more than 300 experts and former Government officials. The message: reduce the budget deficit by $40 billion a year for the next four years, abandon the idea of a Star Wars defense that could totally shield...
DUKAKIS would do well to connect Bush's "chameleon-like" political nature with his ties to the Far Right. The gist of a Dukakis line of attack here would be that Bush is, if not a member, then a marionette of this reactionary fringe group, just as Bush has tried to link Dukakis to the radical left...
Marius apologized for the error but said it did not interfere with the gist of his speech...
...gist of my comments was the widely shared and hardly controversial view that a junior appointment in the history department is absolutely comparable to one at institutions that Harvard usually considers its peers except for one crucial difference. That is, of course, that in terms of tenure, it is a dead end, as the practice if not the theory of the department's promotion shows. From this stems the malaise that the junior faculty suffers. In other respects, teaching load, pay and so forth, there is nothing in particular to gripe about...