Word: skilled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More often than not, his works joke about the gallery scene. On the floor repose a dozen constructions made of impure but somehow weirdly poetic materials: rope, rocks, logs, old felt and even a few potatoes. They are put together with the purest of professional skill, and spoof everything from minimal art to maximum drip. On the walls hang dreamlike, deft pen-and-watercolor landscapes, depicting logs, brooms, brushes and other oddments, poking fun at the high turnover in art vogues, or the foibles of collectors. Modern Sculpture With Weakness combines a log nearly chopped through, a plastic wheel with...
...teaches students that force is a valid means of settling disputes? Who teaches them that they need not accept the consequences of their acts? Who tells them that they have the enormous skill and administrative ability needed to run a university? Who teaches them that integrity is an important virtue, then gives them a philosophy that will cost them either their integrity or a bloody, broken bead? And then when all hell breaks loose, who rushes around wearing white armbands, trying to arrange a compromise for the monsters they themselves have created? It is no coincidence that those who initiated...
COLLEGE AIMS. The majority of those who enter college are plainly more concerned with accumulating credits and acquiring licenses than with learning any particular skill while enrolled...
...A.F.L.-C.I.O. in 1957 for refusing to answer charges of corruption, the International Chemical Workers Union and some oth ers might join up if Reuther sounded the call. Rivalry between two federations almost certainly would lead to more frequent work stoppages as competing unions attempted to demonstrate their skill in obtaining results. Should Reuther decide to found his own federation, he is unlikely to make his move until the presidential election campaign...
...skill as a teacher now has virtually nothing to do with his chances of getting a tenured position at Harvard. The ad hoc committee system has considerable advantages of impartiality and expertise, but as one veteran of six or seven of these said last week, it makes a man's appointment hinge on what he has written and on what his colleagues say about him, since the committees usually have no information on his competence as a teacher, especially if he is at an outside university...