Word: craftmanship
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George Bemberg's "The Craftmanship in Paul Valery" heads an excellent critical section. Expert and authoritative, if overly lyric in its praise, the article is mainly handicapped by its audience's unfamiliarity with the subject matter. Fortunately many well chosen quotations will aid readers over unfamiliar ground. An expanded book review section and a series of three columns on Music, Theatre, and Art add unusual critical depth to the issue...
...CHUCKLING FINGERS-Mabel Seeley-Crime Club ($2). A subtly contrived campaign to convince a Great Lakes lumberman that his young second wife has homicidal tendencies culminates in murder of his son. A girl cousin helps police sift the suspects. Equals earlier Seeley stories (Crying Sisters, etc.) in craftmanship, characterization, unflagging interest...
...Inspiration and craftmanship must combine to produce great poetry," said Professor Gilbert Murray last night in the second lecture of his series as occupant of the Charles Elict Norten Chair of Poetry...
...will be able to summon up any sort of a yawn over North of 36, It has the usual appurtenances of "Western" fiction?but it has something more. The man who wrote it knew the country and people he wrote about as most "Western" writers do not;?conscientiousness, craftmanship and sincerity are evident throughout the novel. What faults there are are faults neither of intention nor laziness?you have the constant feeling that here is a book written as well as the particular author concerned could write...