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...With the great amount of reconstruction work that must be done all over Europe, these people could probably find work wherever they might go," he said. Among the refugees are many skilled craftsmen and engineers, who would be invaluable in these jobs, he added...
...with an Idea. The real trouble in this case: the movie technicians-including the director-are far too clever and too efficient for their material; it has become dangerous to let them kick an Idea around-unless it is a very, very robust Idea. By the time 4.000 competent craftsmen have focused their cold lights on Mr. Maugham's little sermon, pulled it through 89 dressy sets, photographed it tenderly from every possible angle and spiced it up with a thrilling musical background, it stands revealed as a rather small, shivering, indecently exposed banality. Hollywood's cameras, always...
Citizens . . . you are brothers, yet God has framed you differently. Some of you have the power of command, and in the composition of these he has mingled gold . . . others he has made of silver to be auxiliaries; others again who are to be husbandmen and craftsmen he has composed of brass and iron. . . . If the son of a gold or silver parent has an admixture of brass and iron, then nature orders a transposition of ranks and the eye of the ruler must not be pitiful toward the child because he has to descend in the scale . . . just as there...
Norman Granz, no relation, with his horde of riffing saxophones and screaming trumpets, descends on Symphony Hall tonight for the only Boston showing of "Jazz At The Philharmonic." If you've heard the records this collection of master craftsmen have made in J. At The P. Albums numbered 1, 2, 3, and 4, you know what to expect. Their music is involved, brilliant, inventive, and fast-paced to the point of bewilderment. The personnel comprises the highest, fastest, and loudest instrumentalists in the business...
Wandering Byzantine craftsmen first brought "eikons" (images) into Russia, and set the stage for Russia's golden age (the 15th Century) of religious painting. Peter the Great hired Europeans to teach portraiture and allegorical landscape to Russian serfs (who were sometimes flogged for failure to produce a flattering likeness in good taste), turned 18th and 19th Century Russian art into a brackish backwater of the West...