Word: craftsmanship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...less impersonal. The prevailing voice breathes a mild Spring cynicism, satire for the religion of the University (J. Le B. Bolyell), and the defenceless pedantry of scholarship (F. Cole). The most poetic note is that struck by Mr. Stanford in his lines to Yvor Winters--a work of real craftsmanship and feeling...
...layman thinks of an operation as purely a wielding of the knife. The surgeon actually does much more in hemostasis, in clean removal of pathological conditions, in the restoration of normal relations, in the sewing of tissues, and the closure of wounds. This is itself an exquisite piece of craftsmanship, even to the tying of the last stitch." With the foregoing apostrophe to Surgery, which he has served for 40 years. Professor William David Haggard of Vanderbilt University last week in Chicago assumed the presidency of the American College of Surgeons. The Fellows of the College settled down...
...continues on its leisurely way as a publication of more than ordinary distinction. Aristocratic in tone and appearance, catering as it does to la limited number of booklovers, it fulfills its function adequately. In Part XII for the first quarter of 1933 one notes especially the high standard of craftsmanship and typographic excellence, an excellence that is already a tradition with the Colophon...
...Carpenter kept his emotions well hidden even when describing the death of the poor, ugly dwarf in The Birthday of the Infanta. Reticence marked his Song of Faith, played widely last winter in celebration of the Washington Bi-Centennial. The ballet Skyscrapers, proved, too, that Carpenter's expert craftsmanship serves him best in light, colorful music, unburdened by big ideas. But Patterns, with its sentimental waltz bit, its brief Spanish interlude, its sketchy piano embroidery, was almost anemic, its reception by critics and audience cool...
...views this play in retrospect, it appears a little crude, the superior craftsmanship and conception of the Ulysses play have somewhat spoiled it for anyone familiar with the latter. It has some of the ridiculousness of the typical Eugene O'Neill mood, and the method of running words together making sense by their sound effect and their individual connotation rather than by their conventional sequence meaning has not been as yet made sufficiently forceful...