Word: artisanal
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Harvard's Pitirim Sorokin, 66, a Russian artisan's son who became the first professor of sociology at the University of St. Petersburg and later at Harvard. Brash, brilliant young Sorokin ran away from his father at the age of nine ("My father was good man, except when he was drunk"), managed to get himself enough education to enter the University of St. Petersburg. A social revolutionary, he was arrested three times by the Czarist police, served as one of Kerensky's secretaries, was later arrested three more times by the Communists. Exiled in 1922, he soon...
...character from a Kafka novel, no fugitive from Red brainwashing. He is an artisan in the San Francisco Bay region and, until 2½ years ago, he was perfectly normal. Then he was seriously injured in an auto accident. The broken bones mended well enough, but soon he made the frightening discovery that he could not recognize people by their faces...
Actually, the film's sentimentality is not too much above the television "Life With ..." level, but it is done with such adroit good taste as to be never offensive or obvious. Mingled with the edifying tale of an artisan's development into a junior robber-baron is enough humor to make Hobson's Choice one of the year's better comedies...
...Paris last week, the very latest word in fashion was that Christian Dior had gone gothic, and brought out a brassière-girdle-corset to shift bosoms about to conform to the new, flatter look. Said a Dior artisan of the bustline: "The main idea is to bring the bosom-which used to center some 25 to 26 centimeters (9.8 to 10.2 inches) from the shoulder-up to 19 or 20 centimeters (7.4 to 8.2)." Although U.S. designers dutifully listened, some claimed that his new look was old stuff to them. Said the New York Dress Institute...
...over, now employs more than 4,300 workers and is still growing. Says he: "In our business at least, American production techniques are ideal. Our workers aren't like Swiss-patient, painstaking, precise. Our workers are like Americans-hasty, impatient, and better adapted to assembly line than to artisan work...