Word: craft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Part of the credit belongs accidentally to censorship and the camera. Censorship excised John Steinbeck's well-meant excesses. Camera-craft purged the picture of the editorial rash that blotched the Steinbeck book. Cleared of excrescences, the residue is the great human story which made thousands of people, who damned the novel's phony conclusions, read it. It is the saga of an authentic U. S. farming family who lose their land. They wander, they suffer, but they endure. They are never quite defeated, and their survival is itself a triumph...
There is at least as much danger of ham in treating of a hideous woman as in treating of a beauty. Only supreme restraint or daemonic force can make either right. Author Inglis-Jones, lacking grandeur in both, has yet enough force and craft to make a good romance. But it is by no means, as advertised, a "minor masterpiece...
...night long and into the morning, the rescue craft searched Nantucket Sound, but no ship could they find in distress. At 5 a. m. two Massachusetts State Troopers visited Captain Brown with a warrant, locked him up for drunkenness, despite his stout assertion that he was stone sober, that there wasn't a drop in the house. Later that morning, at Edgartown District Court, a magistrate believed the cops, convicted Captain Brown. The captain took the rap like a good soldier, but he shook his head soberly. "I tell you, I heard it," he insisted. "I would...
...penetrating analysis of the development of our native drama in the past two decades; he is a professor of English at Columbia University and drama critic of "The Nation." In this latter capacity, he has long been known as one of the soundest and most intelligent critics practicing the craft...
...putting Of Mice and Men on film Director Lewis (Milly) Milestone ran the same risk, faced enthusiastically the certainty that his camera lenses would exaggerate every flaw the author had covered with writing craft in the book. He also had to tone down to a rough whisper the novel's tangy native speech to suit the ears of censors...