Word: craftsman
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...these manners which set the tone for the whole community in Britain-are unsympathetic to the crudity and explicitness of performance." The result affects everything from the quality of technical education to precise manufacturing standards, and helps explain why the atavistic apprentice system persists, with its "myth of the craftsman and his incommunicable skills." Arthur Koestler agrees that "psychological factors and cultural attitudes are at the root of Britain's economic evils...
...read him), Bennett became the first popular novelist of his time to tell of the actual lives of recognizable people in words that ordinary readers could understand. This was not a happy accident. Beneath the fop, as British Biographer Dudley Barker shows, was a dedicated and gifted literary craftsman. He wanted to write good books, and make money -in that order-and he forever respected and tried to improve his art. As a young writer, he set himself the task of producing 1,000 words a day, and for most of his 40 productive years he somehow managed to maintain...
Hammett could write. Into his bony prose went the conscientious effort of the craftsman whose best work escaped the literary basement where most mystery books belong. His Continental Op (for operative), based on the author's own experience as a Pinkerton detective, is authentically tough. All mystery stories are implausible, and so are Hammett's. But in his case the reader accepts their implausibility because the characters, particularly the Op himself-a fat, stubby, middle-aged man who never got a name and needed none, being an archetype-seem so real. "He put these people down on paper...
...daughter have recently drowned reluctantly realizes that her heart is not broken, impatiently longs for her own death as the only remaining event of possibly equal interest. Deft in execution, ironic in tone, the stories serviceably sustain Author Mishima's reputation as a sure and showy craftsman...
...Crafty Craftsman. In a matter of months he put together the slickest production company on Broadway. On Merrick's permanent staff today there are only two executives (General Manager Jack Schlissel, Production Manager Samuel "Biff" Liff), four assistants, five theatrical technicians. But Merrick has tuned this team to an excited pitch of efficiency that no other production office can approach...