Word: crafted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Managers flash their signals from the bench and teammates bawl their encouragement. But pitching is a loner's art. Once a man places his forefoot on the white rubber slab and takes aim at the plate 60 ft. 6 in. away, he is on his own. Only his craft and strength can whip the ball safely past the waiting batter...
With the rise of photography. U.S. printmaking came perilously close to dying out or becoming an academic backwater. What started the revival was the discovery of exciting new technical possibilities in the craft. Using up to 16 blocks to print from. Artist Louis Schanker showed the rich color harmonies that could be achieved in what was traditionally a black-and-white medium. A shot in the arm from abroad came when Stanley William Hayter brought his Paris Atelier 17 to Greenwich Village in 1940, made it a center of experimental techniques where artists used everything from wadded newspapers...
...diversity of their subjects. Some are professors, but not Harvard professors. (The University has a blanket rule against employees teaching elsewhere while at Harvard). Some are professionals in their fields, like the clinical psychologist who teaches "Psychology of the Personality." Other instructors are experienced amateurs, like some of the craft teachers...
...peripheral and frivolous, but central and serious. Master of an elegantly involuted style which Critic Cyril Connolly has dubbed the "Mandarin," James sometimes carried it to the point of "euphonious nothings," but far more frequently captured "the subtlest inflections of sensibility and meaning." In durability and steady growth of craft and vision, he evaded the fate Scott Fitzgerald had in mind when he wrote that there are no second acts in American lives. James's last novels (The Ambassadors, The Golden Bowl, The Wings of the Dove) are his best...
...program tonight of international folksongs and dances will open a series of events ending next Sunday with an Art Forum. There will be a series of art and craft demonstrations such as glass blowing, caligraphy, and Japanese flower arrangement, tomorrow afternoon followed by a carnival featuring Haitian and Flamenco music...