Word: skill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fair sample of Bernays' skill was his promotion of a new "high fidelity" radio for Philco Radio & Television Corp. several years ago. Bernays hired Pitts Sanborn, music critic of the New York World-Telegram, to write several hundred "leaders in the world of music" asking if they did not agree that it was time a better radio was produced. Those that replied naturally said yes. Bernays then got up a booklet full of apt quotes from their letters, sent it (over Pitts Sanborn's signature) to newspaper editors with a letter pointing out that musical leaders were demanding...
...animal, "Sitting Burro," Mr. Rubenstein expresses the height of his ability to characterize in a few, sure lines. His pen sketches show extreme accuracy. Rarely does he discard a stroke. Instead of water colors, he favors the use of gouache which gives his figures greater substance. Mr. Rubenstein's skill in drawing is best in his charcoal, "Jimmy," and in "Miner's Daughter," the prized of the exhibition...
...nervousness with which famed Artist John Singer Sargent undertook a portrait of her husband, Mrs. Wilson found that Sargent had been talking to Henry Cabot Lodge, who had told him that the portrait "presented a great opportunity for the artist to serve his Party." Reason: Sargent's skill in finding the animal counterparts of human beings, "thus reveal some hidden beastly trait...
Much of Crisis is thus devoted to shots of urchins playing in summer camps, Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria saying "Thank you" to Czech benefactors, orators addressing crowds. Nonetheless, pieced together with considerable skill and photographically first-rate, the picture is a reasonably coherent photographic appendix to last summer's headlines. Effective sequence: Czech soldiers lugging cannon up a mountainside for the defense that was never undertaken...
Speaking on "The Function of Art in a Changing Social Order" before a general membership meeting of the Student Union in the Fogg lecture hall, Feild defined art as skill, based on four essentials: the incentive, or final cause; the image, or formal cause; the materials, or material cause; and the tools, or efficient cause...