But I have compared its text with already published commentaries on the 1960 series of Godkin lectures at Harvard, from which the book was derived, and I can with confidence challenge the gist of C. P. Snow's incautious tale ''.

In the Cowboys ' locker room after the game, flustered CBS reporter Tom Brookshier asked Duane Thomas a long-winded question, the gist of which was " You're fast, aren't you?

Arguably, had he not done this, the gist of what was said would not otherwise be known at all — whereas today there is a plethora of documentation — written records, archives and recording technology for historians to consult.

Both Homer and Hesiod and their listeners were aware of the details of this myth, but no surviving complete account exists: some papyrus fragments found at Oxyrhynchus are all that survive of Stesichorus ' telling ; the myth repertory called Bibliotheke (" The Library ") contains the gist of the tale, and before that was compiled the Roman poet Ovid told the story in some colorful detail in his Metamorphoses.

[...] And the gist of Bhagwan's response, yes, it was going to be necessary to kill people to stay in Oregon.

If one was lost, the other three would still reveal the gist of the plans.

He has written five concertos for orchestra: the first, variously translated as Naughty Limericks or Mischievous Folk Ditties ( neither of which completely get the gist of the Russian which refers to a chastushka ( часту ́ шка ), an irreverent, satirical kind of folk song ) is by far the best known, and was the work which first established him on the international stage.

It develops the gist of Albo's thought ; and it was only when its publication brought down upon him a deluge of criticism that he felt compelled to add to it.

On 14 June, he received a despatch from the King, the gist of which was that there was a time-limit imposed on the northern enterprise.

Though Elsa falsely reported the gist of this conversation, she did mention that Caroline had said to Amyas ' you and your women ', showing Poirot that in fact Elsa was in the same category as all of Amyas's other, discarded mistresses.

The original version of the story was written for C. S. Forester so that he could get the gist of Dahl's story and rewrite it in his own words.

The writ was a command to the defendant that he should deliver up to the plaintiff the chattels ‘’ quae ei injuste detinet ’‘-“ which he unlawfully withholds from him .” The gist of the action was the unlawful detention by the defendant.

Holdsworth is of the opinion that the gist of this action was unlawful detention.

* December 18, the Belgian newspapers were in an uproar on the theme of a violation of the principle of the separation of powers, with an advanced position taken up by Yves Desmet, who draws the conclusion that the government was aware of the gist of the ruling two days beforehand and had instituted a diversionary manoevre ( a frivolous request by FPIM on Thursday ) to derail the ruling.

* Friday December 19, early in the morning, De Standaard draws the conclusion that the Court of Cassation is convinced that the government was aware of the gist of the ruling two days beforehand and had instituted a diversionary manoevre ( the request by FPIM on Thursday ) to derail the ruling: it foresees a hefty debate in parliament.

The gist of it was that in 1944 Robinson had a neighbour named Steve Brodie who one day saw ( in Robinson's apartment ) a copy of one of Ray Palmer's magazines featuring the Dero.

In 1292, there was a slight tendency to regard the detainer rather than the bailment as the gist of the action, where is was stated " it is not enough to say, ' you did not bail to me ' defense, but one must add, ' and I do not detain it of the chattel from you.

To the baroness's overtures he replied in a long and polite letter, the gist of which was that she must leave St. Petersburg at once.

Not much is known about the history of the world before the Order of the Flame was established around 1000 years before Rynn was born but the gist of the back story to Drakan: Order of the Flame below, gives some idea.

) About ' Aristocracy in art ' - art is not for all but only for the chosen few-but the only way to find those few is to bring art to everyone-then the artists have a sort of masonic signal by which they recognise each other in the crowd-he put it much better than that-but that is the gist .</ p >

The gist of the dialogue is that Modesty and Willie plan to unearth a treasure ( the one left buried at the end of the book A Taste for Death ) and anonymously donate it to the Salvation Army, and to take a break from adventuring.

The gist ... is explicit and intelligent: the lure of the city, of civilization, of style and order and bourgeois living is real, for elephants as for humans.

This is usually accounted for by source-monitoring error, where a person can recall specific facts, but cannot correctly identify the source of that knowledge because of apparent loss of the association between the episodic ( specific experience, or source ) and semantic ( concept-based, or gist ) accounts of the stored knowledge.

As Lord Mustill famously held in R. v. Secretary of State for the Home Department, ex parte Doody ( 1993 ): " Since the person affected usually cannot make worthwhile representations without knowing what factors may weigh against his interests fairness will very often require that he is informed of the gist of the case which he has to answer.

Sentence-by-sentence interpreting requires less memorization and therefore lower likelihood for omissions, yet its disadvantage is in the interpreter's not having heard the entire speech or its gist, and the overall message is sometimes harder to render both because of lack of context and because of interrupted delivery ( for example, imagine a joke told in bits and pieces, with breaks for translation in between ).

" Alt text is intended for visually impaired readers or those with older browsers or computers that cannot display the image, and should describe the gist of the picture's appearance.

In reviewing an incident so important in the history of the Transvaal as the appointment of the Potchefstroom assembly it is of interest to note the gist of the complaint among the Boers which led to this revolution in the government of the country as it had previously existed.

In the second book, dealing with dialectic and rhetoric, Isidore is heavily indebted to translations from the Greek by Boethius, and in treating logic, Cassiodorus, who provided the gist of Isidore's treatment of arithmetic in Book III.

The gist of the following elementary proof is due to Paul Erd &# 337 ; s. The basic idea of the proof is to show that a certain central binomial coefficient needs to have a prime factor within the desired interval in order to be large enough.

The gist of the RG is this group property: as the scale μ varies, the theory presents a self-similar replica of itself, and any scale can be accessed similarly from any other scale, by group action, a formal conjugacy of couplings in the mathematical sense ( Schröder's equation ).

" The gist of his argument is expressed in a single sentence:

The story is written in a gist.

The gist is that al-Qaeda's efforts have been counterproductive and used as " subterfuge " by some Western countries to extend their regional ambitions.

He or she must also be told what is at stake ; in other words, the gist of the case.

Instead, what is stored in semantic memory is the " gist " of experience, an abstract structure that applies to a wide variety of experiential objects and delineates categorical and functional relationships between such objects.

The gist of the grant is recounted as follows:

The gist of Kant's position is that even though we cannot know whether there are final causes in nature, we are constrained by the peculiar nature of the human understanding to view organisms teleologically.

The accompanying haiku may have a direct or subtle relationship with the prose and encompass or hint at the gist of what is recorded in the prose sections.

Technically, Jung recommended stripping the dream of its details and presenting the gist of the dream to the dreamer.

While several groups, including the People's Republic of China, contend that the Report is overstated or inaccurate, its authors and supporters maintain that its gist is undeniable.

When we are visually stimulated with a complex picture, it is more likely that individuals only get a gist of an image and not the image in its entirety.