Word: glossing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...George Gloss, a thickset, scholarly-looking bookseller who owns and runs the Brattle, is waging a desperate final-hour battle to save the archaic Sears Crescent, a cluster of buildings which houses his and other historic book stalls...
...them) that descendants of the great Mayan race. What a Zinacanteco? He speaks a language known as "Tzotzil." He has developed over centuries a way of life strongly resistant to any inroads of Mexican or Western civilization. Even Catholicism has failed to do more than lay a slight gloss of saints and churches over his old, basic Indian religion. Moreover, a Zinacanteco manages his own local government and possesses his own lands. He has his own community...
...shown this week at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art. TIME readers first saw samples of this unique treasure in color four years ago, when TIME photographed the collection in Formosa. For the four pages of old scrolls shown this week, Art Director Michael J. Phillips sought a gloss-free paper that would bring out the delicate detail, the color and the appearance of the silk originals. In the end, he had the paper made to his specifications at the Mead Paper Co. in Kingsport, Tenn., and flew down to make sure of the quality. Engravings were made...
...loneliest in organized sport. Ideally, the umpire should combine the integrity of a Supreme Court justice, the physical agility of an acrobat, the endurance of Job and the imperturbability of Buddha. Before each game, he must perform such lackey's chores as "policing" the diamond and rubbing the gloss off 60 new baseballs with specially aged New Jersey creek mud that costs $12.50 a can. He must know by heart all 550 regulations in the baseball rule book. He must not only keep high-strung athletes from beating one another up, but prohibit fraternizing between the teams. He must...
...some of the polish off our act. We have succeeded beyond all dreams." This was, in a sense, true; for Gottlieb, Alex Hassilev and Glenn Yarbrough, a folksinging trio called the Limeliters, have sung and quipped their way into an expanding fortune by establishing themselves as antonyms of showbiz gloss. Their concert tours (notably with Mort Sahl) have been unvaryingly successful; their most recent LP album has been on Billboard's bestseller chart for 15 weeks; they are worth $3,000 to $5,000 a week at the big blue grottoes like Basin Street East or Los Angeles...