Word: gist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Yudin speaks, Russia listens. For Moscow University Professor P. F. Yudin is to Soviet dialectics what Eugene Tarle is to Soviet history-the nimble scholar who can trim theory to fit practice. Last week the gist of a talk Yudin gave a group of Moscow intellectuals on April 17 reached the U.S. It was important because it put into clear, connected words a picture of how Russian leaders see their country. Introverts & Extroverts. Yudin gave an exegesis of the revised revelation on one of Marx's key texts: that once the classless society has been achieved, "a special...
Many a priest has posted the weekly Legion of Decency film ratings on his church bulletin board and let it go at that. To help such fathers better guard their flocks, the American Ecclesiastical Review recently devoted a lead article to an explanation of Catholic moviegoing policy. Gist: when you don't know...
...letter to St. Augustine of Canterbury* in 601, Pope Gregory the Great laid down a general principle of conversion that overzealous missionaries have often forgotten. Its gist: adapt much, change little. Speaking of the pagan Anglo-Saxons, Gregory sagely observed: "If they can go to their old temples . . . they will feel more at home in the worship of the true God. . . . We must act as those climbing a high hill, proceeding by small steps rather than by long leaps...
...even if we did it, it didn't amount to much; and even if it amounted to a lot, Canada showed bad manners in talking about it; come to think about it, it was a downright, premeditated attack on us. So ran the gist of the official Russian reply to the Canadian disclosure that some Canadians had supplied atomic-bomb secrets to the Russian military attaché's office...
Southern leftists too were throwing their weight around. A Communist-inspired "Battle Front Formation Convention" met in Seoul to denounce U.S. occupation measures. One speaker brought the house down with a report on World War II. Gist of the report: when Germany was near collapse in 1944, the U.S. jumped into the European war for spoils. After ineffectual skirmishes by U.S. troops on minor South Pacific islands, Russia staggered Japan with tremendous blows by the mighty Red Army...