Word: skillfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Composition. Sculptor Stoss was summoned to Cracow in 1475 when he was in his mid-30's worked for 14 years carving the altar, which measures 45 ft. in height and 36 ft. in breadth and contains some 200 individual carved figures. The greatest labor and most consummate skill were obviously lavished on the shrine, or central panel (see color page). There at the center of the drama is the dying Virgin Mary, falling with limp hands into the anguished arms of the attending St. James. The two figures, carved from one massive block of wood, have been called...
...Sugar Ray Robinson, 37, four-time middleweight champion of the world, earned close to $500,000 for 15 rounds of fist fighting in which he showed an admirable capacity for absorbing punishment and a furious skill at dishing it out. Round after round, Challenger Carmen Basilio, 30, plodded in to belt his man from heart to haircut, and Robinson fired back with deadly effect. Basilio's head bobbed like a light punching bag at the end of Robinson's jackhammer jab. He started the fight sullen with 5 o'clock shadow; he finished looking like...
...takes little pathfinding skill to find the Lawson Academy of Fine Arts. As the advertisements say, its studios are "above Harvard Pro," a scant flight of stairs away from the bottles and crates of Cambridge's thriving liquor outlet. This fact doesn't seem to bother either the artists or Lawson Mooney, their instructor, however, and the trim little rooms on the second floor are spiritually removed from the bustle of Mount Auburn Street...
...bright spot in today's lineup will be the return of John Hedreen, a leading scorer for the freshmen last year. Hedreen will start at center forward. Although he has only been practicing since the middle of this week, he showed great skill and adroitness in handling the ball yesterday...
Only Janet Ward, as the frustrated wife of an impotent cripple, acts with any skill in snaring Miss Lonelyhearts...