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That's the gist of the plot...
That, stripped of the nudging and stylistic razzle-dazzle that pad the book to length, is the gist of Wolfe's argument. It looks familiar, as travesties must. The dismantling of modernist dogma has been going on for ten years or more; it has been a prime staple of architectural criticism and practice throughout one of the most intense periods of building in American history. Everyone, including Wolfe, knows something about it. But he brings nothing new to the argument except, perhaps, a kind of supercilious rancor and a free-floating hostility toward the intelligentsia. The late bird...
...Pacific call was evidence that not all members of Congress use the Easter recess, which ended this week, to sound out their constituents at home. Yet as TIME correspondents tracked some of the many lawmakers who do, the voters seemed to be giving them a fairly consistent message. The gist: most citizens view the recuperating President as a highly likable person; his priority in attacking inflation by curbing federal spending coincides neatly with their own sense of the nation's most urgent problem. But they are not at all sure that his specific spending cuts are distributed fairly...
...spokeman for the university, which has also begun an official investigation of the charges said this week. "It appears at the present time the gist of the complaint is that university officials responsible for hiring and promoting are not following university policy and as a result many employees, especially minorities, are not being treated the way they are entitled...
...gist of that is not accurate," Pipes, a Soviet historian, said. Flora Lewis, who wrote the column, could not be reached for comment...