Word: artlessness
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Tragic Grace. The gay and artless sketches (with a lifetime of craft behind each deceptively negligent line) have a heartbreaking quality when the reader recalls that these glittering trivia were cut and polished by a man soon to take his own life. So the reader searches for a clue to the tragic flaw in a nature that seemed all confidence and gallantry, and finds it in a pride so vast that it demanded others live according to Hemingway's own stern and complicated code (even when they could not know the rules), a pride so touchy that it could...
Died. William Muir, 61, North Dakota-born sculptor (TIME, March 13) whose works, inspired by seaweed and seed pod and carved in kingwood, walnut, mahogany and cocobolo, had combined the artless beauty of driftwood with the dynamic tension characteristic of Arp and Moore; following heart surgery; in Pittsburgh...
Most readers approaching such a work will have a suspicious eye out for innocent fakery or artless burble, but will find neither. All the grandeurs and miseries of life between nine and 15 are experienced by Caroline's heroine-Antonia Rutherford ("Buddersmud" to her coevals). All the savagery of child civilization boils about the muddy asphalt and precipitous stone stairs of the London primary school. Derision and clownish aggression is the prechivalric code between the nonsexes. There are friendships of Byronic intensity and power alliances of Renaissance intricacy. The tormented teaching staff is examined through a child...
...read the book know, is the rags-to-nouveau-riche story of the late playwright-director Moss Hart and his historic subway trip from The Bronx to Broadway. Hart was a shrewd, witty, candid and flamboyant theater man. As played on the screen by George Hamilton, he seems reserved, artless, uncertain. The movie audience is asked to imagine him as the boy wonder who collaborated with Writer-Director George S. Kaufman on the 1930 comedy smash, Once in a Lifetime. It's hard...
...director will say to him about his immediate role in the play. If he does well in the course it is only because he has done well in his role, thus he has been hired at the price of academic credit and a good grade. If our nontheatrical, artless English student is admitted instead, the net gain to the Loeb stage is zero, and he might well have learned more of value in a regular dramatic literature course. One could object that I have drawn polarized caricatures, and that a really good actor must have a broad interest...