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...appraisal of an unheroic fat man trying to keep his head in a high historical wind. Inescapable is the conclusion that the bolshevik bourgeois and proletarians of 1793 "liquidated" the one French king who was more bourgeois than Bourbon, with a wide stripe in him of poor but honest artisan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: King-Cog | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

Miss Skinner is not only beautiful and a superb artisan. Her production is as polished, professional, and thoroughly competent as any that has come to Boston this year. Shaw is never dull even when played badly; when played as beautifully as it was last night before a spell-bound audience at the Colonial it is superb...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 4/11/1939 | See Source »

...head of the subject. Several years later the Dutch master completed the figure, but none of the resulting prints turned out as well as the ones of the head alone. The paper has been very skillfully mended, where it was torn completely across the sheet, by some unknown artisan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 3/5/1937 | See Source »

...temple in Jerusalem, the Mayas were developing their civilization in Central America. In the early Christian era the Mayan culture attained the peak of its splendor. The priests invented a form of writing; the mathematicians and astronomers worked out a calendar; the architects built great cities and temples; the artisan modeled in stucco, wove textiles, carved and painted with rare skill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 8/6/1934 | See Source »

...finally to the division into capitalistic and wage-earning classes. A few of the poor free men being more ingenious than the rest, turned then talents to the manufacture of goods offered first for barter and later for sale. Here we have the beginning of the artisan class. At a later date the merchant class sprang up to facilitate the process of exchange...

Author: By P. M. H., | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 11/27/1933 | See Source »

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