Word: craftsmanship
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...Pots, like all other forms of art," Leach once explained, "are human expressions . . . projections of the minds of their creators . . . Good hand craftsmanship is directly subject to the prime source of human activity, whereas machine crafts, even at their best, are activated at one remove-by the intellect...
...World War II, his small, thriving Hallicrafters (named half for himself and half for craftsmanship) was grossing nearly $2,000,000 a year, and was primed to turn out fine high-frequency equipment for the Government. In all, Hallicrafters did $150 million of war contract work. After the war, Halligan began making commercial sets. By 1947 he had both the training and the cash to switch to television...
...Things should look right," he says, and though he often speaks of having "spoiled" reams of watercolor paper, he is not above bragging a bit when he has translated nature well. Marin's humility before nature, his craftsmanship before his easel and his lonely pride before the world give his letters the tense, half-humorous, contradictory quality that is their main charm...
...become a noose plaited from strands of nymphomania and insanity. All this may be taken straight as simply a lurid, supersexy Sahara adventure story completely outfitted with camel trains, handsome Arabs, French officers and a harem. Nonetheless, The Sheltering Sky is a remarkable job of writing, with a craftsmanship that makes it the most interesting first novel to come from a U.S. writer this year...
...craftsmanship and imagination, some of Fabergé's works rivaled those of Benvenuto Cellini, but unlike Cellini, Fabergé had been a 100% eclectic with a vast history of luxury arts to borrow from and exploit. While his best works were magnificently unique, his worst looked like refugees from a dime store bric-a-brac counter...