Word: skill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...script for a recent production of "The Cat and the Canary" called for a circular, rotating bookcase suitable for stowing away various dead bodies and homicidal instruments, and this necessitated a purchase. But the carpentry skill of the property men enables the company to get around most of the many problems of this sort less expensively. To illustrate this point Mr. Trask indicated in the crowded prop room an ugly, box-like structure constructed of mattresses and a few sticks of wood which he said could be made to resemble nearly any couch or sofa called for merely...
...dead for the many students who wasted their effort to gain admission through the notion that education means acquiring skill in the use of a limited body of facts, or worse still, that an A.B. from Harvard is an end in itself...
...wedding of theory and practice is always the teacher's dream, and Professor Allport recently demonstrated his skill at combining them by presenting a Social Relations 1a lecture on Crowd Psychology in terms of a revival meeting once held in Boston by the eminently practical Aimee Semple MacPherson. Even the professional resenters of classroom humor avowed it was better than the comics, but, unobtrusively, each step in Aimee's spellbinding was made to correspond to a formidable chunk of psychological verbiage...
...more hair-raising prose. The story, probably more or less autobiographical, is that of three children (the varmints) who grow up on the wrong side of the tracks in a town like Apalachicola. Author Bennett describes their environment sympathetically, and now & then probes their moods with humor and delicate skill. But more often she assaults her readers with rhetoric ("0 God, what jubilance, exuberance, terror and pain"), plagues them with questions ("What is love? . . . What are you, Pivot?"), emotes, postures, harangues...
Across Quincy Street is the Union, dining hall to aeons of Freshmen, as well as the offices of the Harvard Athletic Association, where tickets for football games and other tests of skill are obtained. English A students will have many occasions to visit Warren House to the rear of the Union. Northward on Quincy Street is the Fogg Art Museum...