Word: glossing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...thorough book, the best job ever done on Grant's early years. Another big job done with care and spirit was Margaret Coit's John C. Calhoun: American Portrait, a sympathetic and fair study of the great diehard South Carolinian. Catherine Drinker Bowen put too much fictional gloss on solid John Adams and the American Revolution, but it was the first biography to make him seem wholly human. Irving Brant finished the third volume of his massive James Madison, and William Harlan Hale wrote a fresh, readable Horace Greeley...
...Y.M.C.A. conference in Finland as the official representative of the "Hi-Y" boys of Ohio. Many of his fellow executives think he has retained, to this day, an air of Y.M.C.A. earnestness and unblinking sincerity. One of them describes him as "just a country boy with a Madison Avenue gloss...
...Congress a few hours earlier. For days, White House advisers and ghostwriters had turned out draft after draft-five in all. Clark Clifford and Judge Sam Rosenman, a couple of presidential phrase-turners from the old days, had dropped in during the week to help rub on some gloss...
More important for some will be items filed further back. It has been the good fortune of this generation of Harvard men to be exposed to ideas rather than to "great" teachers. There have been in the classrooms few men whose personalities will remain to gloss over either the wise or the stupid things they said. But there have been ideas that will last, and that will have continued relevance...
...painter of the American scene, Hopper has only one peer, Buffalo's Charles Burchfield. Like Burchfield, Hopper can make even eyesores magnificent. Shorn of irrelevant details, stripped of sentimental gloss, dismantled and recast in his canvases, they become monuments to their time...