Word: glossed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Throughout history, Nervi remarked, architectural style has reflected the technical possibilities of the day. Insofar as style has followed technological trends, it has been aesthetically pleasing. But when style becomes an ornamental gloss, covering and hiding new developments, buildings lose their beauty...
...adventure has gone from the modern book store," the Brattle's Gloss complains. "You might just as well sit home and order by catalogue." The bargain prices which make books available to those who could not otherwise buy the intrigue and the romance of antiquarian shop, Gloss contends, make the second-hand book stall of special consideration...
...Gloss, who has become the historian of the Cornhill, has vanced several proposals for the of the most important in the area. The most ambitions suggested, proposes the removal of main structures to the Fanuell in Dock Square which would constituted an historic reservation to that of Williamsburg, Virgin...
...thus far all appeals to the have been in vain. Gloss is now a letter writing campaign at the Boston Redevelopment in the hopes that a stay of will be rendered...
Although his main store will for several months, Mr. Gloss will clearing his stock of books in annex of his shop today, selling thing for ten cents a volume. Next day he will start giving the books and by the middle of next week, the molition of the Cornhill will have...