Word: craftsmanship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cleverness or Craftsmanship...
...Watching staged courtroom dramas can be fun; Perry Mason has proved that. But it is doubtful if one learns much. What is usually carried away is the conviction that cleverness rather than craftsmanship wins the suit. If your story reflected the goings-on at Ann Arbor, the judges and professors who participated should be required to write 100 times: DID NOT THINK...
...fitting. According to Los Angeles County Museum Curator of Modern Art Maurice Tuchman, their emphasis on detail, however offbeat, is "a profound reaction against California as a land of lotus eaters, neon lighting and drugstore starlets." Their attainment of maturity is not at all guaranteed, but they have made craftsmanship, if not neatness of execution, a competitive goal. "They are always looking over each other's welding seams," says Hopps. "They will applaud a Paul Harris (see opposite) but criticize his stitches...
...Funky." Another believer in craftsmanship is William Wiley, 27, who takes time off from teaching a graduate seminar in painting and drawing at the University of California's Davis campus to question the reality of objects by subjecting them to the pummeling of abstraction. Like many contemporary artists, he no longer respects any border between painting and sculpture. "Why do some people think a painting is more important than a car, or vice versa?" he asks. "Some ask how I can spend my time making these crazy things-and those same people are out plugging away at their lawn...
...himself a bundle of bahts by selling bright bolts of cloth to tourists (TIME, April 21, 1958). Thompson is still the largest producer, but he has attracted plenty of competition from entrepreneurs who sell finished dresses as well as the cloth. Gaining fast are two firms that combine Thai craftsmanship with U.S. design and market their goods to stores from the U.S.'s Bergdorf Goodman and I. Magnin to London's Liberty and Paris' Lanvin...