Word: crafting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much freer will Chancellor be to speak his piece as commentator? That too is something of a neuter craft. Even as gifted a wordsmith and observer as Sevareid could, on days when his brow was furrowed but his mind only half engaged, sound merely sententious. As the CBS News code defines the job, the analyst is "to help the listener to understand, to weigh and to judge, but not to do the judging for him . . . the audience should be left with no impression as to which side the analyst himself actually favors...
They are not a particularly attractive bunch; and one of the work's major problems is that the audience is drawn into the play less by empathy than by sheer fascination with Ibsen's unerring craft. Similar problems exist with the dominant structure of dualities and negations. What is said is often far different from what is meant. Hedda maintains inner autonomy by contemptuous manipulation of others, and the culminating suicide grotesquely affirms freedom, leaving the onlooker shaken but less than profoundly moved...
Book Bazaar--"The Second Wave" Benefit, Old Cambridge Baptist Church from 10 to 6 "Trees of Christmas"--10 to 5 Craft Fair--Pound Building...
...shores of Africa or India. These waters, surrounded by oil-rich nations, are crisscrossed daily by huge supertankers that could miss the reed boat's small kerosene running lights and run over the Tigris at night without their crews' even knowing it. Because Heyerdahl's latest craft is made of reeds, it does not show up on radar screens...
...urging of her psychiatrist, Sexton began to write verse. What started as therapy quickly became a craft, a vocation and a career. Her letters frequently refer to poetry as her life saver, but elsewhere she sees her work as appalling in its blunt candor. "Creative people must not avoid the pain that they get dealt," she writes an editor. "I say to myself, sometimes repeatedly 'I've got to get the hell out of this hurt' ... But no. Hurt must be examined like a plague...