Word: skill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Renaissance sculpture, together with Chinese and Aztec figures in stone, complete the main body of the exhibit. Forgetting the line of demarcation which can be drawn between the false art and the true, it can be said that many of the examples shown are products of great craftsmanship and skill. The counterfeit Raphael as well as the Constable indicates that the forger can often be placed within the category of the true, but misdirected artist...
...week, the ultrarespectable American Journal of Surgery ran an "enthusiastic" discussion of "Dog Surgery and Self Development" by Drs. Clyde Merideth Jr. and Thomas Peck Butcher of Emporia, Kans. Small-town surgeons, said they, with little chance to show their versatility, can keep in trim by practicing on dogs. "Skill . . . had much better be developed at the expense of the dog than at the expense of the patient...
...skill of U. S. surgeons "has failed to affect the recorded death rate from the major forms of cancer." Operations on advanced internal cancers save few lives...
...landscape by Paul Hollister '41 is a carefully executed oil which shows more skill and technical finesse than originality; but it is a poor spectator who continually demands originality in the paintings which he sees. Honest performance and an intelligent approach have become rare birds these days, but they can be found in the work of Hollister. He is a fine draftsman, and he succeeds in rising above the stage of self-consciousness. The paintings of Elliott Richardson '41 betray a certain naivete of approach, but they are straightforward and clear. Nothing artificial, nothing that might protrude as a deliberate...
...Yale-Pennsylvania game will mark the debut in league competition of Yale's sensational sophomore left hander, Ted Harrison, who, although he has pitched only seven innings thus far this year, has demonstrated that he has lost none of the skill that made him an outstanding hurler in prep school and as a freshman. Pennsylvania, which met Columbia yesterday (Friday) lost its first two league games...