Word: craftsmanship
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...recently proclaimed Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment "the greatest detective novel of all time" (TIME, Jan. 21). It was a considerable tribute, and there was considerable doubt among detective-story addicts whether Dostoevsky deserves it. Some critical minds which are addicted to detective stories believe that today more craftsmanship goes into mystery novels than into all other kinds of novel combined. Moreover, successful murder still requires imagination, as much as in the days of Edgar Allan...
Director William Dieterle has frankly set out to pull the customers' heart strings like so much taffy. This time his expert hand has slipped. His craftsmanship is submerged in an inept script. Even Claude Rains, generally a likable and competent actor, has script trouble. Referred to throughout the film as a wise and witty caricaturist, Mr. Rains's caricatures look worse than mediocre, and he has been given nothing either wise or witty...
Some of the 52 years' work already in vested in the Cathedral stems from a concern for craftsmanship (St. John's scorns the use of steel girders, has built its own walls of solid granite). And when reproached for slowness its builders are content to recall that Chartres Cathedral took two centuries to finish. But most of St. John's delay-other than financial-involves a gigantic architectural indecision and eventual about-face. In 1911, after the choir and sanctuary had been built in heavy Romanesque, a new architect (the late Ralph Adams Cram) decided...
Triumph has all of the virtues and some of the faults of Corwin's craftsmanship. It uses contrast effectively (a taut-voiced announcer says, The voice you hear will be that of the Conqueror: the man of the hour, the man of the year, of the past ten years and the next twenty-and a hesitant, uncertain G.I. voice speaks up). Corwin's text likewise relies on sharply contrasted images...
Storytelling was at a premium in straight novels as well as mysteries. It was the story (plus plenty of sex) that sent lush young Kathleen Winsor's lush Restoration romance, Forever Amber, rocketing to the top of best-seller lists despite the author's mediocre craftsmanship...