Word: pithiest
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...many cultures, elders, sages and saints have saved some of their pithiest teachings for students and disciples gathered at their deathbeds. Hindu saints, Zen masters and Jewish rabbis have been particularly good at this sort of thing; many of their final words have been written down for posterity. Jewish ethical wills almost 1,000 years old are preserved, and the practice of writing them appears to go back at least 1,000 years before that...
...Page has pushed the idea of Aboriginal art as a medium in which different cultures can converse. Can there be reconciliation on stage? That was the subject of the symposium, which brought together indigenous leaders such as academic Marcia Langton, Senator Aden Ridgeway and filmmaker Rachel Perkins. Perhaps the pithiest comments came from curator Djon Mundine, who spoke of Aboriginal arts as a soliloquy cast into a silent void. "We keep giving it to you people," he told a largely white audience. "We want something to come back...
...While students all around me were tapping out notes to friends and family and sending breezy missives to professors, I was losing touch with my high school buddies, playing phone tag with my parents and staking out the mobbed office hours of my teachers, where etiquette demanded only the pithiest of conversations. But once professors started posting study notes on the Web, I had no choice but to log on and never look back...