Word: craftsman
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...nation's 6,443 draft boards are scraping the bottoms of their I-A barrels. Urgently they are tapping other manpower pools, and the time approaches when no man and his employer can find certainty in being over 40 or a father or one-eyed or a skilled craftsman...
...about her abilities. "I don't try to imitate genius," she assured New York Times interviewer Robert van Gelder. "Why should I? I work terribly hard to tell a story effectively, and do a good, tight construction job, because I can do that much; I can be a craftsman...
Author Heym's main theme is that even an imperfect, crushed human being can outwear a tyrant if he has the will to sacrifice, to die. As a craftsman Stefan Heym is not always equal to his exalted theme...
...reborn into the mysteries of his childhood. As Lafite, a cancer pregnant in his throat and his weary mind working at its poor height, is drawn, hypnotically, nearer & nearer the iron grille which now shields the wet stones of the grotto, Werfel ceases to be the reverent and grateful craftsman. He becomes, for a few pages, one of the best things a man without genius or sainthood may hope to become: a great artist, communicating nobly with the other Hyacinthe de Lafites of his time...
...even me," Disney has said. "Do you know how long it would have taken one man to make that picture [Snow White]? I figured it out-just 250 years.'' But controlling the wheels-within-wheels is of paramount importance, and here Disney is the authentic master craftsman, indispensable and, so far, without a peer. "Without his stabilizing influence," writes Professor Feild. "the art form for which he is responsible would have long since disintegrated...