Established to recognize technical mastery and innovation in gem carving, the Cutting Edge Awards are considered the most prestigious in the field.
For many young students today, the rigidity of our schools is stultifying and, worse, does not recognize actual mastery of the materials.
Arnold Schoenberg was among the first to recognize the mastery and seriousness of this opera, which was at first lightly regarded but in which Strauss perfected his conversational melodic recitative.
He corresponded with other conspiracy theorists, collected photographs of plausible sightings and even participated in a panel discussion on the subject at Hofstra University, while his children sat in the back of the auditorium, eating French fries and basking in the reflected glory of a father finally being recognized for his mastery of a potentially world-shaking discipline.
Arturo Sandoval, and flautist Hubert Laws, saxophonist Jimmy Heath and Dave Grusin, titans of the jazz world recognized for their mastery played through the evening with award winning singers including Patti Austin, Dee Dee Bridgewater, George Benson, Luciana Souza, Freddy Cole and Al Al Jarreau.
A recognized example of his mastery of impressionism is the novel's opening scene where all the characters meet at the station.
Or that the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature was recognized for the literary mastery of her family memoirs about West Virginia?
Skinner's first big mistake, then, was in failing to recognize that language mastery involves knowledge (or, as Chomsky later called it 'cognizance') of linguistic rules and conventions.
His second big mistake was related to this one: he failed to recognize that acquiring mastery of a language is not a matter of being trained what to say.
Personal mastery recognizes that it's a PROCESS.
Even the earliest pieces recognized as stone tools demonstrate mastery of the necessary complex relations between hand eye coordination, motor skills, and an understanding of the raw material properties involved in the production of sharp-edged splinters or flakes that were used with little subsequent modification.
