Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story of painting and sculpture and architecture and music as well as all the so-called minor arts from the days of the caveman until the present time." Bulk of The Arts' material, however, is concerned with the plastic arts. Like a fond Dutch uncle with the skill of an expert lecturer, Mr. Van Loon begins with the premise that artists are fairly ordinary fellows, only a little better sensitized than most, and that art comes from man's impulse to show the Creator what he can do. He deplores the division between arts and crafts, believes...
Edward L. Barnes '38, president of the Glee Club, did the honors both for his own organization and for the Instrumental Clubs, stressing the fact that no technical knowledge or skill is required for either group...
...Egypt as early as 2,900 B. C. artists were already masters in the technique of mixing sand, lime and water to form a smooth wall covering, painting it while still wet with wet pigments in extremely delicate and elaborate designs. From that day to this, however, the skill of the fresco painter has depended largely on his speed, because the time limit for doing any section of wall before the plaster gets too dry to absorb colors has never been more than 24 hours. Artists familiar with centuries of failures to extend this limit were electrified last week...
Most interesting controversy in Wild Animal World: which animal is most dangerous? Dr. Ditmars is inclined to think some kinds of snakes are most dangerous, but he says it is a matter of familiarity and skill. A herpetologist, for instance, need have little fear of snakes, but if he is not careful a tiger or a gorilla might...
...suggests that in this case, too, Edmond was a dispassionate observer.) But that they were men of the world, not mere bourgeois scriveners, their journal amply witnesses. They were as much at home in a princess' salon as in an actress' dressing-room, describe each with equal skill...