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Mehta's multivolume autobiography, titled Continents of Exile , has loss as its overarching theme: loss of sight, of childhood, of home and country, and now--with this volume--loss of Mr. Shawn's New Yorker . The memoir takes us from the time the author was hired as a staff writer in the early '60s up to 1994, when he was "terminated" by the loathed Tina Brown in her vandalization of his cherished magazine.
Using the "discussion draft" on the hallmarks of a comprehensive, integrate statewide civil legal assistance system prepared by the Project for the Future of Equal Justice as a model, the planners adopted as two overarching goals: (1) the need for the creation of a legal services delivery system that provides comprehensive, integrated high quality legal services to the client community and (2) "100% access to essential legal services for low-income Ohioans such that they are able to secure substantive and procedural equal justice."
Bettelheim had no overarching theory, but he had an abiding preoccupation: authority and the ambivalence it inspires.
The overarching purpose of a balanced-budget agreement is, presumably, to balance the budget.
In order to "sustain a celebratory tone," write the curators, "representations of certain sexual practices or fantasies (those judged by common consensus pathological) were ruled inappropriate for our overarching agenda."