Word: masking
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...that "Not one of them had a kind word to say for their Alma Mater's newest building. How could they? They had been taught to strive for honest architectural solutions and yet at the same time their own university had been building a library with a Gothic mask. Talking to them I had the feeling that Princeton's library may well turn out to be the last example of our colleges' long devotion to a mistaken loyalty . . . to the outside appearance...
...Largo has one grave weakness. Through the thinnest possible mask of melodrama, it is trying to speak to everyone in the postwar world who is disheartened; to show how a brave and intelligent man can and must regain reasons for living and for fighting. In this admirable attempt, it succeeds only part way. It may be that gangsters simply cannot be made to symbolize enough...
Catch-as-Catch-Can. In Newport, R.I., the historic Old Colony House clock stopped when the hands scissored together, caught a somnolent starling. In Milwaukee, Leon Culberson stole second base when the umpire's mask caught what the catcher missed...
...your article on African Negro sculpture [TIME, May 10] you refer to the "wholly abstract mask [see cut, left] used in the circumcision ceremony of the secret Poro Society of the Ivory Coast Dan Tribe...
...ensure the secresy of such ceremonies, the Poro had another mask, the Gblo ze ge (see cut, right) The man wearing the Gblo ze ge mask had the task of killing any boy caught spying into the mysteries. Such a peeping Poro was first made insensible with poison in his nose and eyes, then seated on a smokeless fire. After he was properly roasted, he was consumed by all the zos (the local big shots) of the countryside called together for the occasion...