Word: craftsman
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...grizzly can outrun a horse! And when we have gazed our fill, we say: What a dirty, littered cage! An unkempt bruted labor through it. Mr. Dreiser has declined to improve his knowledge of the English language, and while he is a painstaking reporter, he is a very indifferent craftsman. For him it is more honest to ramble on for 840 pages than to attempt compression and readable sentences. Genius gleams fitfully through the welter. Mr. Dreiser observes life broadly, with great detachment and a cumbersome irony not unlike Hardy's. He is at times mystical, but more often merely...
...died last week in Washington. Most of his paintings are unsalable because they are plastered to public buildings or warships, but even were they salable there would be no fluttering of art dealers excited by unspeakable profits. For Reuterdahl was not an artist; he was a craftsman; his craft, the faultless delineation of a ship. Not for him was the cloudy, light-streaked glory of Turner's seas; not for him the salty terror of Winslow Homer's rockbound coast; Reuterdahl never played ghost with John Masefield's Wanderer; Reuterdahl went with natty-suited officers...
...earn money," declared Whiting Williams, business man who has lived for years as a laborer, at Phillips Brooks House last evening. "There is a spiritual factor: every worker maintains his standing as a man among men by the nature of his job, by his standing as a craftsman among craftsmen, irrespective of the money return "which the job brings...
Three years ago, it would have been less difficult for those who visited an exhibition of Mr. Manship's to express what they saw. Five years ago, it would have been still less difficult. In those periods, Mr. Manship, the craftsman, the maker of glittering tours-de-force, was concerned with ideas (which language is very well suited to express) and with silhouettes (also adaptable to language). Now his art, complete in itself, asks no favors of literature. His faculty to interest, however, is still well evidenced in his choice of subject...
This, unfortunately, does not still the ancient fond between authors and critics. The author feels that his whole literary life may be destroyed by a spiteful commentator, and if his work has no real merit, that is what is likely to happen. It is the resentment which any craftsman feels on having his work weighed and condemned, or perhaps accorded some slight mead of praise, by a mere layman. The obvious solution is to admit that critics are also authors and that the creation of an intelligent reading public, which is the critic's function, is no less essential than...