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Word: worke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...well as John has, an athlete must have two important gifts, athletic ability and the mental capacity to use those abilities," Fanning says. "It is important to realize that while John is a very talented young man, it is his willingness to put his nose to the grindstone and work that has made him the outstanding player...

Author: By Michelle D. Healy, | Title: John Casto | 11/16/1979 | See Source »

...love with remarkable realism and sensitivity. Da is irresistible because its love has charmisma: it is cheery and optimistic, cute and funny, honest and poignant. Superbly acted by Barnard Hughes, who played the title role 549 times of Broadway before hitting the road, this version of Da exemplifies the work of a master playwright who not only listened to the voices in his head but understood their meaning as well...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: Honor Thy Father | 11/15/1979 | See Source »

...attempt to get the visual arts in by the back door, but it founders because of the usual Harvard problem of trying to do too much in too short a time. If the Carpenter was limited to a solid, rigorous introduction to drawing and painting for undergraduates it could work wonders. But instead students are barraged with courses on everything from design to film-making, many of which have nothing to do with serious art and are only really of value to a student intent on a career in advertising. Most striking is the fact that the general...

Author: By Philip Swan, | Title: The Sad State of Arts at Harvard | 11/15/1979 | See Source »

...Cambridge, it was an impact that far outweighed the 'liberal arts' tradition of the college. At the present time Harvard is caught in a paradoxical situation. It has admitted the necessity of practice in the creative arts as a complement to their academic study. But it has tried to work that practice into the curriculum in a very half-baked way that satisfies nobody. If Harvard was really committed to the arts, and thus to the humanities as a living tradition, it would establish at least one school of fine art, be it theater or painting or music, slap bang...

Author: By Philip Swan, | Title: The Sad State of Arts at Harvard | 11/15/1979 | See Source »

These weaknesses in the presentation of European art would not be so serious if it were not for the fact that Harvard partakes of the general, worldwide confusion about art and what to do with it. For the artist his work is an approach to reality that is both different from, and entirely independent of other ways of knowing; science, language and so on. He believes, in the words of Ruskin, "that the greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people...

Author: By Philip Swan, | Title: The Sad State of Arts at Harvard | 11/15/1979 | See Source »

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