Word: workmanship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other American building experts on a Red-carpeted, 30-day junket through Soviet cities, gave them the best look at Soviet building that any U.S. group has ever had. Back in London last week the builders reported that Soviet construction moves at an impressively frantic pace, but that the workmanship is shoddy, the hand tools often primitive, the materials frequently second-rate...
...body shaped like a figure eight, and a capacity for more subtlety of expression than any other orchestral instrument. It was perfected in Italy in the 17th and 18th centuries by craftsmen of the Amati, Stradivari and Guarneri families. Others have been trying to duplicate their masterpieces of workmanship ever since...
...which-valor is shown by enemy against enemy." The tough steel plate gave helmsmiths and armorers a far harder task than was faced by earlier artisans, who worked in iron and bronze. But medieval and Renaissance craftsmen achieved results that for pure, functional beauty rank with the most remarkable workmanship ever done in metal...
...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 When any individual reaches the stage of interfering with the good workmanship of others, he should be withdrawn from school .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...