Word: craftsmanship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...alert. There is nothing easier than to preach to the already converted. For any but a guilt-collecting audience, most of these plays rate a big B for Boredom. There is no moral suasion in crude hack work that substitutes lapel-grabbing diatribes for scrupulous dramatic craftsmanship. A poor play does not become a good play simply because the playwright's heart is in the right place...
Illinois lawyers respect Hoffman for legal knowledge and craftsmanship. Last year he upheld the Government's first suit to desegregate a Northern school district. In his decision, which involved the Chicago suburb of South Holland...
...land of forests, and its builders developed an unexcelled skill in fashioning wood. Confronted by the domes and cupolas imported from Byzantium, they adapted these masonry-based forms to an idiom of carpentry that produced a unique style, unmatchable and now un-copyable because it depends on a craftsmanship that no longer exists...
...workers, helped by peasants who work for Gucci in their homes around Florence, shape and sew as many as 7,000 pairs of shoes each month, plus pigskin bags made of 130 separate pieces. "There is not much that you can teach a Florentine about merchandising or craftsmanship," says Aldo Gucci...
...compared with $1 in Italy, 560 in Spain, 580 in Japan and 480 in Taiwan. Labor is indeed a prime cost factor in an industry that has never been able to mechanize to any great extent. But price is not the only reason that the imports do so well. Craftsmanship and leadership in styling are equally valid explanations for the appeal of foreign shoes, particularly those from Italy, which account for 35% of the imports...