Word: skill
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Remember that a resume is an example of yourwork. If you claim skill in organization andability to communicate clearly and consiely, yourresume should demonstrate your proficiency inthose skills...
...want to know what painting is or can be, look at Velazquez. This has been the judgment of artists for the past 300 years. It is as though Velazquez has never been seen as anything but the summit of excellence in art, embodying a degree of intelligence, pictorial skill and lucidity of realization that defy not only imitation but, in some final way, analysis itself. He is to realism what Piero della Francesca is to abstraction. First Edouard Manet and then a whole succession of French painters from the 19th century into the 20th (not to mention English and American...
...this legerdemain as Velazquez. At 20, as The Waterseller attests, he was already a virtuoso of appearances. To be able to record both the half-sunken splash of water and the light dew of condensation on the pottery jar in the + foreground was to have touched a level of skill beyond that of most painters. But then the virtuosity is replaced by something deeper -- a meditation on the way the painter translates sight into mark and how the viewer turns mark back into sight. How can painting serve empirical ends and reveal truth? Only by disclosing its stage machinery...
Ozment says this ability to "harmonize a group"is the most important quality for a dean at aschool as tradition-bound as Harvard. "The lastthing you want to do is stand out as anindividual. Mike Spence has that special gift,that skill," says Ozment, who worked closely withSpence as a former associate dean forundergraduate education...
...Diego game further highlighted Harvard's need to work on its transition game. But once again, the score failed to indicate the parity of the two teams' skill levels...