Word: skillfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...alumnae programs. I have renovated buildings, designed new program areas, cleared areas for additional programs and managed two major structures. (Many jobs and an assortment of titles for the price of one.) All programs were concerned with "experimental education" and they had a purpose. There have been co-ed skill classes, competitive opportunities and recreational programs--on fields, in buildings, on rivers and at mountains--in athletics. There have been plays during term and in the summer; workshops in the Arts; several disciplines in the Dance with Master Classed by the "greats;" performance as "work in progress" and in full...
Working with stone hammers and crude huairas, or wind-draft casting furnaces, the Indian goldsmiths attained a level of technical skill that seems no less amazing today than it did in the 16th century, when that consummate metalworker Benvenuto Cellini is said to have spent weeks trying (and failing) to duplicate an Aztec fish of flexible silver plates inlaid with gold. The earlier goldworking cultures of Peru used hammered sheets as their basic material, but the Colombian artisans preferred to cast their images from gold. They were masters of the lost-wax technique, whereby a model of clay and charcoal...
...case, she declares that Beethoven's art is more important than Napoleon's military skill-"an art," she unkindly notes, "highly wasteful of its materials." Napoleon, whose mind or spirit at this point is soaring like the last movement of "The Eroica, "appears to get the message: musical forms may reveal divine essences, while his own kinetic life has been shaped by a gargantuan but finite will, whose only form was eventually a form of selfdelusion. Napoleon Symphony is, in some sense, an entertaining and elaborate joke. What the punch line comes down to is the simple fact...
...indeed. Father and son shoot some grouse and a small mastodon, as the father recalls later, hook a 250-lb. fresh-water marlin, and reject as unworthy of their time and skill a unicorn whose horn is not made of gold...
...emotional landfall with the two characters no longer fencing defensively but confessing their past scars, present fears and future hopes. The reason this is so affecting lies in the consummate skill and total humanity with which Moore and Ferrell in fuse their roles...