Word: workmanship
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...Fogg Museum, which has brought on some unusually fine exhibitions during the winter, has opened a small but exceptional exhibit of Chaldean objects of art. One is astounded to learn that such exquisite workmanship should be the relic of a civilization stretching into the dimness of pre-Biblical days along the Tigris and Euphrates. These articles, which archaeologists have unearthed in a state of excellent preservation, give a vivid portrayal of the former life in Ur of the Chaldees...
...Christmas issue the Advocate provides readers with an ample volume and goodly assortment of reading matter. Nor is the list of offerings, which range through essays, both serious and bantering, stories, poems, book reviews, and a sizable editorial devoid of good workmanship...
...genuine source of satisfaction to the connoisseur. Both the modern trend toward mass production and the advance of education have made possible and profitable the publishing of books in great numbers. This large scale production has tended to reduce the beauty of volumes and to cheapen the workmanship. Students are apt to forget that binding, in years past, was as much an art as writing itself. A study of this kind can do much to create an understanding of artistic craftsmanship and to develop a very real appreciation of books in themselves...
...Harvard a course is given by Dr. Winship which brings to the students a feeling for the individuality and workmanship that are the hall marks of a fine volume. Rollins has carried the study into its more advanced stages. Besides a History of the Book, the college gives courses on Literary Personalities and Recrestion Reading. The first makes of a book a more personal thing, an expression of the author's individuality, something too often neglected in the study of text books. The second provides valuable knowledge for the selection of a personal library. Rollins is certainly...
...There is something tremendously courageous, almost sadistically so, in this attitude. It is probable, with him, that reality itself is an escape from something he fears more--sentiment, romance, mysticism... "Mencken never describes anything, he tears it to pieces and throws it in your face... His aesthetic is Good Workmanship. His Muse is Technique...