Word: apprenticeships
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...Widener stacks. Two years before he had been married, to a newspaperwoman; not one of those who drinks her coffee black and eats the paper cup to prove she's no pansey, but a vibrant and gracious women whose style is as ample as his own. In love, his apprenticeship now over, he must have begun to appraise Miller's legacy. He might have seen Miller's desire to record all of the American spirit as an impossible gesture, leading always, as it did for Miller, to great and bitter loneliness. Again, it might have been that he recognized...
...operatic history, Viennese Music Historian Marcel Prawy said last week: "Where is there a house in which the orchestra plays from scores that carry the personal annotations of Mahler, Richard Strauss and Herbert von Karajan? Where is there a house where each stagehand and stage technician has undergone an apprenticeship under masters whose teachers themselves form an uninterrupted chain through four generations? And where else is there a house where ushers greet each lady or gentleman by saying 'Küss" die Hand [I kiss your hand]' with a deference that dates straight back to the Imperial days...
...Washington conference of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Building Trades Department. Then he reeled off the statistics of construction wage settlements which jumped from an average raise of 12.40 per hour in 1962 to 49.60 per hour last year. The unionists cheered wildly. Next the Secretary admonished them to relax apprenticeship restrictions that deny jobs to Negroes. They booed. When he urged building workers to increase their productivity, they booed again. He advised the unionists to end other practices that raise building costs. More boos...
...molded by the Depression of the '30s is plainly in order. The most urgent need is for the building trades to open ranks and find room for more qualified young men, particularly Negro ghetto dwellers. Toward that end, union hiring halls might be abolished by law and discriminatory apprenticeship requirements sharply reduced. Regional bargaining, such as Ohio contractors have begun, should replace local negotiating...
...like compositions. His masterpiece in this genre is Australia (1951), a 9-ft.-wide, predatory sort of flying queen ant that stands on a pedestal, as much signpost as symbol. Australia occupies a niche of its own at the Guggenheim, for it marks the end of Smith's apprenticeship to foreign styles and his emergence as an innovator with followers of his own. Thereafter, his works became increasingly abstract, although to the last their profiles also ambiguously suggest the stature and presence of a human being...