Word: craftsman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...play a pageant. An inspired Touchstone could have made it one If, in his first soliloquy, he had won the audience, the runnings about of the next two hours would have had coherence. But Peter Charles Johnson didn't have the necessary flair. He was convincing as an honest craftsman, but no more...
Homer thus described the 20 threewheeled chariots built in a single day by the Greek god of fire, Hephaestus, the master craftsman who dwelt on Mount Olympus. Though ordinary Greek chariots lacked the gift of self-propulsion, the Greeks once led the ancient world in the production of wheeled vehicles. For the past several millennia, however, the Greek vehicle industry has been in quite a slump. In modern times, while such smaller nations as Portugal and Israel have managed to produce autos of their own, Greece has had no automotive industry...
Then, in a literary disappearance as abrupt and unexplained as Ambrose Bierce's, Shaw vanished. He was replaced by someone else named Irwin Shaw, who produced the swollen, solemn war novel The Young Lions. The craftsman's joy in a job done as well as a man could do it was missing; the book's two elaborate plots alternated like the footfalls of a tired man clumping upstairs...
...life that stirs in his lines-even in the rare love poems or the many graveyard tributes to the dead-often seems a creation of the proud will, not the passions. But for the careful ear there is strong music, cool and casually regular. Gregory is a highly professional craftsman who has chosen to work mostly in silver and pewter and dull bronze, rarely in gold. His muse is a plain girl, easily overlooked in flashy company-but the eye wanders back to her, for she has perfect skin, fine bones, a direct, grey gaze and a clear mind...
Louis XIII furniture is much like the King's rule: cosmopolitan, craftsman-like and built for the ages. The second of the Bourbons, he ruled from 1610 to 1643 (a reign that roughly parallels England's Early Jacobean period), generated the power that elevated France into the splendor of the baroque. It was a period that saw both the dissolving of the parlements and the founding of the Académic Française...