Word: craft
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about her the uncomfortable air of a plain girl unaccountably forced to fill in for the homecoming queen. One also feels her pushing, pushing, pushing to fulfill the demands of wit and style that are made on leading women in dramatic comedy. She comes as close as conscious craft can bring her, yet succeeds mainly in communicating her own edginess. What's missing, very simply, is the kind of natural charm an actress like Irene Dunne used to bring to roles like this, an ability to modulate from humor to rue almost, it seemed, without thinking...
...news board is the heart of the paper, and the news comp is a thorough and challenging introduction to the Crimson, the University, and the craft of daily journalism. From your first day on the job you'll be reporting and writing stories, many of which will appear in the next day's paper. Working closely with a tutor, you'll learn the standard news form and style; aided by an assignment editor, you'll discover how to dig up information. And the Sports Cube covers the length and breadth of the Harvard athletic scene. Our sportswriters travel...
...prospect of being a journalist first excited Oney in the early 1970's, when he read the writings of men like Tom Wolfe. Wolfe argued that in contemporary journalism, one could write on current events with the novelist's attention to craft. The discovery that journalism need not be dry "was kind of a mind-blower for me," Oney recalls. Besides, "I didn't want to be an English teacher--which is about the only other option for an English major unless you work for Bell Telephone or something...
...rivaled ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. In the halcyon years of the archive (c. 2350-2250 B.C.), the metropolis lured traders from Persia, present-day Turkey, Lebanon, Damascus, Sumer and Egypt. Students journeyed from Mari, Kish and Emar to enroll at the academy, then went back home to practice their craft. The prosperity was partly due to Ebla's agricultural acumen. One tablet records the warehousing of 548,500 measures of barley-enough for 18 million meals. Ebla may also have been the first city in the Near East to supplant bartering with use of gold and silver as currency...
...stagnant and deadly rain water that never evaporates from the gutters. The word "poverty" loses its meaning because there is so much of it. The people somehow lead stable lives in these worst possible conditions, and the life of the city never idles. The chatter of hawkers, the stylistic craft of fruit vendors, the music of both the faithful and the impious, and the imprecations of beggars never cease...