Word: workmanship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pride of Workmanship...
...Your [Oct. 11] story on NASA's report concerning Mercury contractors confirms my feelings regarding the "lack of satisfactory quality of workmanship" and general integrity displayed in many too many American-made products and services...
...much delight in the sights and sounds of that city as did Vittore Carpaccio. He obviously loved Venice's busy canals, its processions and pageantry, its fairy-tale architecture-almost every aspect of the place, in fact, down to the brightness of its gondoliers' jerkins and the workmanship of a beautifully wrought bolt on a door. Last week Venice returned the compliment by opening in the Doge's Palace the biggest Carpaccio exhibition ever held (see color...
...note on quality: I have examined one of the ducklings, and the workmanship is superb. It was put together with precision, so as not to destroy the original fluffiness, and the eyes were replaced with most realistic buttons. It must have been made by some marvelous machine, cleverly designed for the mass production of untold numbers of beribboned quackers, uniformly stuffed, gaily decorated, the whole extraordinary conception executed with consummate skill. An inspiration to us all at Eastertime. Christopher Reed...
...Meistersinger is no different in import from Wagner's more cosmic dramas, and the evening spent with the Boston Opera Group's production conveyed just that. The drama's specific setting (a curious one for Wagner) in bourgeois Nuremberg of the 16th century stresses the tie he envisioned between workmanship (or the Volk), and art's unmeasurable dreams...