Word: skill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...middle ages the craftsman was a specialized worker trained in the rigorous guild system to a high level of skill at his trade. He was a man whose work was essentially creative and its success was directly responsible to his own initiative and ability. At the present time however, the factory laborer has no personal interest in the job itself and looks to it solely as the source of his income. The creative element in machine work has been sacrificed for the sake of efficiency and the result is evident both in the quality of the products and the character...
...Wozzeck music in 1914 but then like all good Austrians he went away to war. His finished work, condensed to 15 scenes, shows clearly the teachings of Arnold Schönberg, according to whose ultra doctrine it is enough for music to describe the adventures of themes. With great skill Berg has woven a pattern of absolute forms, in the first act used a Suite and a Passacaglia with 21 variations, in the second a five-movement symphony, in the third a series of inventions. Like Schönberg he used the combination of song and speech which the Germans...
...considered great rarities by the Fogg Museum officials. There are also many rare and valuable prints with some proof impressions. Many of these prints have their titles written on them by Goya himself. Included in the exhibit is a complete succession of these prints showing the development in skill and feeling, ending with some made when he was 80 years of age, the famous "Bulls of Bordeaux...
...requires a much higher degree of skill to produce a happy ending, which seems convincing, than a tragic one. Here the plot and characters are convincing enough, but as in so many last acts, there seems to be a faltering and as labored effect to tie together all the loose ends. The action there goes on in retrospect in the mind of Bruce, and as I read this stream of memories I felt that the author was perhaps groping for something that he had not quite found. Also, at the very end the shifting of emphasis to the part fate...
...Morrison succeeds so well in doing, they should appear as integral and inseparable parts of the whole poem. It is true that the finest writing cannot be sustained and that a long poem can only hope to contain intermittent flashes of high lyric poetry. Nevertheless the narrative skill of the poet should lead one as artlessly as possible from one emotional height to the next...