Word: artisanal
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...give employment to the artisan...
...join some 500 other TV actors at Broadway's Maxine Elliott Theater, where he won the audition for a role in this week's CBS show Danger. Thursday, dressed as a cowboy, he posed for a photograph scheduled to appear in Look magazine. Friday, he turned artisan and spent the day soldering together metal frames for hoop skirts that will be worn by the Rockettes of Radio City's Music Hall in their Christmas show...
...Great Strength. Yet through the 162 years of struggle, the vitality of France, of both Frances, remained. Through the ridiculous republics and the comic restorations, through the financial swindles and the sordid half-hearted colonial adventures, the France of peasant, artisan, artist-the France of the civilized common man-has remained. This France has survived invasion, defeat, and costly victory. It has even survived French politics...
Wagner considered himself "no artisan to earn my daily bread; it must be offered to me . . .so that I may remain an artist. Who is to do this? Only those who love me." Those who loved him-the most famed was Franz Liszt-had often to be reminded of their obligation. Sample: "I have locked myself up in a country house to put the last touches on the Holländer; the town won't see me again until he flies. Meanwhile, there is urgent business for you. Look at this pawn ticket...
...artisan's son, born in the dirt-poor village of Fuendetodos in 1746, he had the ruthless energy that stops at nothing and that nothing stops. Goya fought bulls and men with equally savage joy; had he written his autobiography, it could have been as proud and action-packed as Benvenuto Cellini's. He lived in a time known variously as the Age of Reason and the Age of Enlightenment, but, Spanish to the core, he substituted allegories for reason and sardonic darkness for enlightenment...