Word: craft
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Updike is now indisputably at the top of his craft. No one else using the English language over the past 2½ decades has written so well in so many ways...
Partly his staying power comes from an almost religious dedication to craft. Christian symbols and ethics hover around much of his work; it was no accident that in Atlantic Brief Lives, a biographical compendium, he chose to write about Søren Kierkegaard. The existentialist, Updike noted, works "with flirtatious ambiguities, elaborate deceits and impersonations, fascinating oscillations of emphasis, all sorts of erotic 'display...
...year's end to return to the paper's Washington bureau as a senior national correspondent, then announced that under the changed circumstances it would be "unthinkable" to remain in any capacity. His departure, he said, was "the only way to meet my obligations to my craft, my colleagues and my own conscience...
Clearly, a short break will not tempt the Harvard superstar to abandon the craft she has perfected since childhood. She recounted her introduction to the game: "My brother played lacrosse in high school One day he put a stick in my hand and started winging balls at me I had nothing to do but catch them if I wanted to stay alive...
...speedy rescue was the first real-life test of a new breed of satellites called SARSATS (for search and rescue satellites) that will be circling the planet in years to come. Carrying special receivers tuned to standard international distress frequencies, these electronic watchdogs will be able to locate troubled craft equipped with inexpensive beacons almost anywhere on earth. Beaming their information back to the ground through a network of dish-shaped antennas, they should ensure prompt rescues of, say, a junk in the South China Sea or a yachtsman rounding the Horn singlehanded...