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...Gandhi had ended his fast was received with prayers of thanksgiving by millions of his followers and sympathizers. Illiterate, mystical, depressed, the Indian masses rejoiced that Gandhi's life, which is their symbol of hope and liberation, had been spared. But Indian political leaders did not attempt to gloss over the adverse effects of the fast. They were frankly worried...
...comprehensive attempt ever made to gather in one volume the treasures ... of art which are housed in the museums of North America." Authors are Regina Shoolman, secretary of the American Institute for Iranian Art and Archeology, and Charles E. Slatkin of Brooklyn. In 295 pages of critical text they gloss the book's pictures with 17 brief, illuminating guides to periods and schools of the world...
...allowing luxuries to find their own price in the market. Against such a policy the OPA argues that it is extremely difficult to distinguish between necessities and luxuries, and secondly that if luxuries rise in price, manufacturers will switch into making them rather than necessities. But OPA tends to gloss over the fact that higher prices also reduce the demand for goods...
Waugh's hero ghost is ratlike, inexorably likable Basil Seal, the flower of British adventurousness degraded to magenta.* War draws him and his fellow ghosts into one of those ornamental tourniquet-and-candy- box knots which only Waugh knows how to tie. But Waugh's dross and gloss should deceive nobody for long; he has become one of the most deadly serious moralists of his generation. Every one of his novels had its masked importance. History helps make Put Out More Flags his most important book...
...does nicely withal. Its pop tune arrangements, of which there aren't very many right now, are played with apathetic carelessness. A colored band of that kind just can't get excited about whether I want to walk with or without you, and working for that Glenn Miller gloss on the sweet numbers seems a waste of time to them...