Word: craftsmanship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Girls' Dormitory is an intelligent exanimation of a first love too robust to be dissipated in the adolescent dreaming which initiated it. Skillful craftsmanship by all concerned eliminates the pitfall lurking in most stories of young girls in love with older men, i. e., that the hero will appear a prude if he rejects the heroine's advances, a lecher if he welcomes them. Helped by U. S. lighting and No. 28 makeup, Simone Simon is more embraceable than in her last French picture to reach the U. S. (Lac aux Dames), but Girls' Dormitory, as first...
...likes to give studio visitors bits of brightly colored glass, potters nervously about his workrooms with sparse reddish hair on end and reddish-grey beard wagging, continuously jots down memoranda, hopes someday to "write the whole Bible in living colors," works with unceasing self-criticism to see that his craftsmanship is perfect, his meanings clear. With true medieval literalism, Artist Saint likes to use genuine prodigals for his Prodigal Sons, combs missions for repentant sinners when one is needed for a window...
...furniture business) by Berkey won a gold medal at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition of 1876. After that, through the American Victorian, Eastlake, Mission and the Golden Oak periods, Berkey and Gay and the other firms which grew up around it built up Grand Rapids as a home of honest craftsmanship, if not of inspired design...
...Dufy, the 'color researches' of a Matisse, the free inspiration of a Picasso, the often satirical gravity of a Rouault," ecstatic esthetes gurgled learnedly of high warp, low warp, ribs and slips, joined plain gallery-goers in gasps of sincere tribute to the vivid colorings, the exquisite craftsmanship which had reproduced even the blurred edges of pastel strokes in faithful detail. Uninitiates might eye Pablo Picasso's Inspiration and find that famed artist's characteristic distortions no more inspiring in cloth than on canvas. But then they could turn with genuine pleasure to Jean...
...shape of the cosmos, and he is glad to have other mathematicians drop in for a little tinkering. Modern relativity theory in fact owes a great deal to the carpentry of Weyl, Milne, Lemaitre, Born, Eddington, Tolman and others. But the good professor keeps a sharp eye on the craftsmanship of his colleagues...