Word: gilding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...effect on the great outside world. Newspaper readers in general, and Boston ones in particular, may be getting tired of exposes of Harvard as a Communist cell. This particular campaign has been too successful; readers have come to accept the fact, and frequent rehashing serves only to gild the smear...
...Fleisher. Its virtue is its creation of mood (Mr. Fleisher is well-traveled in the morbid regions of the human heart. In this case we are dealing with a hospital orderly who has always wanted to see a patient die, and finally gets his chance). "But the author must gild his story with psychological comment: "Life itself was nothing more than a perpetual dying, and because it was so, was more life. Paradox lay at the root of all being." Fortunately, however, there is little of this stuff; for those who don't mind cadavers "The Death of Adam Sadman...