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Died. Edward Weston, 71, painstaking camera craftsman, one of the world's topflight creative photographers; of Parkinson's disease; in Carmel Highlands, Calif. At 37, Weston abandoned his Los Angeles portrait studio, moved to Mexico where he worked with Painters Diego Rivera and José Orozco, in 1926 returned to California, began a series of precise, sharply composed nature studies that made him famous, won (in 1937) the first Guggenheim fellowship ever given to a photographer. Weston used little equipment, almost never retouched or cropped his clear, spare negatives, cautiously refused until 1947 to use color film...
...river or clutch a flower in her trunk than be a proper beast of burden. Around Mooltiki's plotless existence revolve a skin-prickling tiger hunt and Author Godden's evocations of the lush tropical fecundities of Indian jungle country. Rumer Godden is a fastidious craftsman but a trifle hammy. Some of her sentences preen themselves so long before the mirror of sensibility that, like Mooltiki, they never quite carry their weight in sense...
Guillen also defended the simple prosaic language of Berceo, calling it "calculated artistry, rather than childish naivete." The simplicity of Berceo's style was due in part to his own humility, and to the fact that he considered himself a craftsman or versifier, rather than a poet...
...Williams is a thoroughly professional craftsman and has an obvious enthusiasm for Thomas. And surely none could be better qualified to interpret Thomas than his fellow Welshman. However, in a few places his interpretation is disappointing...
Walter Kerr is a prolific writer not well enough recognized in the American theatre. A master craftsman, his Herculean fetus spawned in New England's Zeusian thigh is a lusty, virile creation. He manifests a through knowledge of dramatic styles from Aeschylus to Arthur Miller, and a comprehensive knowledge of the character and literature of each period of American development...