Word: glossing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...