Word: apprenticeship
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Gaddes cannot readily explain his success with the offbeat. Perhaps his apprenticeship at the Santa Fe Opera -the prototype of the innovative summer company-has something to do with it, as well as his urbane salesmanship. Gaddes also credits public interest in the exciting young singers who have appeared with the company and admits that the BBC's telecast of the 1978 Albert Herring raised the company immeasurably in the eyes of opera-hungry St. Louisans...
...half-inch cut, the width of the chisel, along the stone's edge. When he began with Bambridge, it took him three days to make an ashlar. Now he can turn one out in 15 minutes. Jamieson, an ex-butcher, has completed 18 months of his four-year apprenticeship. He finished second in a recent stonecutting competition to determine which of the apprentices would go to Bath, England, for special training. Next time he intends to be first...
Such paintings are in the minority, despite the catalogue's efforts m to present everything Gorky touched as though it were a major statement. Curator Waldman's laudable aim has been to present Gorky's career as a continuous unfolding rather than a plagiarizing apprenticeship followed by a sudden "second birth" into originality. One is grateful to see the painter whole, but one wearies of sentences like, "The drawings are superb, yet the paintings that followed ... are even more extraordinary." These canonizations of the Self-Martyred Master (an Armenian-American Van Gogh, in effect) have an anesthetic...
Dogs breed at nine months of age. Wolves wait until they are two or even three years old. Meanwhile they do the work of the pack, most notably helping care for other wolves' pups, in what Fox calls "a time of apprenticeship and service to their society." In any pack, however, unless its ranks have been seriously depleted, only one female each year gives birth to a litter. Even more notable, some studies suggest, the alpha male (or executive wolf), who makes all pack decisions and conducts the hunt, tends not to breed-perhaps because it would distract...
...those who come to toil on the project for a five-week workshop period. Those who stay longer get put on the payroll at $35 a week; and a few "Frank Lloyd Wright Scholars" attend free in exchange for manning the kitchens, a reminder of Soleri's own apprenticeship at Wright's Taliesin West. Yet for all the frailty of Arcosanti's finances, Soleri has been able to maintain out side interest in his project for a decade. The mystique of his eclectic, quasi-religious creed, cribbed from sages as different as Matthew Arnold and Teilhard...