Word: workmanship
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...tools and bore holes in workbenches and cut off fingers." As for the much touted "valuable social experience" a pupil gets in school, "the values which are inculcated turn out to be largely these: a firm conviction that one can get by without working; an idea that quality of workmanship is of slight importance; a confirmed habit of disregarding instructions: a systematically cultivated indolence...
...practical and social skills can be learned elsewhere. Every pupil needs and should get as much academic training as possible, but if he refuses to learn, he should not be allowed "to interfere with . . . those who want it . . . When any individual reaches the stage of interfering with the good workmanship of others, he should be withdrawn from school . . . A school should not be diverted from great constructive ends to picayune, sentimental, and retrogressive side issues; it should not sacrifice a major quality of civilization to an unrealistic concern for an unfortunate group which, although a real social problem...
...boom has had its flaws?grandiose plans that take years to complete, antiquated methods, shoddy workmanship, poor maintenance. Though Latin America has so far produced some dozen architects of high reputation, none has as yet developed a style as effective as that of Niemeyer, now 48. But Latin America's "grand old men" of architecture are only in their 50s or younger, and a host of younger architects is coming up; the boom goes on and the future is bright...
...very clever man!" Lev softened. "You think so?" he asked. But his delight vanished when Bender accused him of making "shoddy" hats for the Navy. Lev replied angrily: "I deserve at least from the committee I should get a congressional medal. Never mind accusing my workmanship!" When the subcommittee produced letters from his competitors complaining about the favors Lev mysteriously won from Government employees, the capmaker brushed them aside: "My competitors, they love to see me being in the grave...
Usually the reaction to large prints is the complaint that they suffer from broader and coarser workmanship. Martin has tried to solve this problem technically as well as artistically. Instead of transferring a preliminary drawing to the block, he does a few sketches on paper and then works primarily on the wood. As a result of greater honesty to the medium, he seems to gain in mastery of space and texture, as well as in freedom. Swinging lines and the very alive look of the "Lute Player" are characteristic qualities of his work...