Word: craftsmanship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Oberammergau lies in a valley of those Alps, a town of ornate chalets inhabited chiefly by woodcarvers who combine medieval craftsmanship with modern salesmanship, who ship their whittlings all over the world. Over the town looms the jagged Kofel peak; in the town a bearded newsboy, attired in plus fours, sells his papers from a motorcycle. It is a town of anachronisms but the Passion Play is still its overtone...
...century its congregation will still be able to call the Mellon church "modern." But Brother Richard had no such advanced ideas about the architecture. He selected famed Architect Ralph Adams Cram of Boston, inveterate, pious, scholarly Gothicist, whose very name on a contract insures his clients of meticulous, medieval craftsmanship (Princeton University Chapel, Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine...
...would be a real loss to the world," he continued, "should Italy endeavor, by inaugurating machine production ... to eliminate individual craftsmanship ... to do away with her Venetian glass or lace ... her extraordinarily fine leather and stone or wood work." The "whole Ameri can people," he insisted, is "furnish [ing] its homes with furniture of Italian make or design." Indeed, "If we [Americans] wish to study the European backgrounds of the American people of 1930, it is no longer sufficient for us simply to visit England ? we must make a trip to Italy as well?
...museum of the first rank. Its prints, casts, sculpture, bronzes, terracottas, glass, Classical, Egyptian, Far and Near Eastern art, armor, jewelry, musical instruments, European and U. S. decorative art, metalwork, costumes, textiles and laces, make it the necessary U. S. focal point of anyone seriously interested in worldwide craftsmanship. Last year's deficit of $883,384.35, due to administration expenses, reported recently by Metropolitan authorities (TIME, March 3), is an indication of the sums being spent to keep this esthetic treasury of increasing benefit to the nation...
...cause, and whose husband is the presiding judge when an innocent suspect is tried for the case. In spite of a script containing a scene of two people struggling for a revolver and full of lines like "You wouldn't do this to me," Stein has used smart craftsmanship. He avoids telling the story in flashbacks from the trial of the woman herself, shows instead her reactions to the trial of someone else. When, after her confession, her own trial begins, the audience feels assured that she will be unanimously acquitted. Best shot: New Year...