Word: skillfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eleven years since the founding of Port-au-Prince's Centre d'Art, which supplies untrained local artists with painting material and a tourist market (TIME, June 7). The two most impressive painters in the exhibition have in fact achieved a high degree of skill and sophistication while keeping their roots deep in Haiti's voodoo-impregnated soil...
...would take a bold reader to proclaim that the year produced a single first-rate novel, but it would take a truly dull type to deny that he found some diverting and even arresting reading. The novelists, for all their technical skill, seemed unable to cope effectively with their time, man's fate or even man's heart. And the reading public was on to the situation: nonfiction outsold fiction by a wide margin...
...SEED, by William March, told the horror story of a little monster touched with congenital sin, a pigtailed murderer only eight years old. It was done with quiet skill by an underrated U.S. writer who died within the year. This week it appeared on Broadway in an expert dramatization by Maxwell Anderson (see THEATER...
MORE STORIES, by Frank O'Connor. Stories of ordinary Irish people done with unobtrusive skill by one of the best short-story writers alive...
...Heart of the Matter (Associated Artists) is a failure that is more distinguished than all but a few of the year's most successful films. Based on Graham Greene's 1948 novel, it is certain to outrage anyone who admired the skill and the love with which the novelist threaded his theology through the mazes of a human heart. In the film, the Roman Catholic hero's suicide, the event that phrases the whole question of salvation in a cruel and beautiful paradox, is averted; and the threads of motive and meaning wind up in a thoroughly...