Word: talents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Waugh has a great talent for vivisection; the results may be acrid-smelling. If he were middle-of-the-road, gentle and soft in his surgery, the pungency would be lost. Let the morticians demonstrate "compassion"; it's up to the readers of The Loved One just to chuckle...
...feeling of depression wrought upon me by the present status of American "Fine Art" is offset only by a passionate hatred for the critics who have brought this condition about. The shame is not that we have no great masters of fine art, the shame is that those with talent enough are discouraged from...
...thinks of himself as having "much more to do with the 18th or 17th Century than the present one. The workmanship was much better in Bach's time than it is now. One had first to be a craftsman. Now we have only talent. We do not have the absorption in detail, the burying of oneself to be resurrected a great musician...
...years later that a German scholar named Hermann Voss finally discovered the first ones. By now, scholars have identified about 15 of La Tour's paintings. Last week visitors, clustered in one of the galleries of the Frick, could study for themselves the special marks of his great talent-the smooth, stylized surfaces, gleaming in ghostly candlelight; the quiet faces reflecting stolid patience; a slender hand, translucent to the flame...
...trade. Soon after taking over, he put B. & B.'s sales force on an incentive-pay plan, encouraged unionization, widened out production to include playing cards, pens & pencils, cigarette lighters. His biggest coup was to corner the nation's top commercial art talent (Norman Rockwell, Maxfield Parrish, Rolf Armstrong) for B. & B. calendars, at a current cost, including other artwork, of $1,250,000 a year. Result: B. & B. became the biggest calendar company in the world (it sells more than all others combined, has 21 foreign outlets). From little more than...