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Though plentiful, facts about Babel are less precise than his fiction. An obsessive craftsman, intensely jealous of his working and thinking time, he was often evasive and devious with friends and editors. There is no doubt, however, that Babel's life was brief. In 1939, after nearly a decade of playing the quiet and lucky mouse to Stalin's cat, the 44-year-old writer was snatched off to Moscow's Lubyanka prison and never heard from again. As the prison gates closed behind him, he was heard to utter, with a sly smile...
Ranging around the Southwest, Director Hopper abruptly changed into a budget-watching craftsman. He avoided expensive featherbedding by hiring personnel outside the regular Hollywood trade unions, and used friends who worked for scale. He surrounded them with ordinary passersby whose faces no Central Casting agent could reproduce...
...silver for the maid-Copper for the craftsman...
...said, "I have had to reply ruefully that because I am a Catholic, I cannot afford to be less than an artist." What she did was make literature her highest office by accepting the Thomist dictum: "The good of an art is to be found, not in the craftsman, but in the product of the art" "The fiction writer," she observed, "writes for the good of what he is writing. Yet what is good in itself glorifies God because it reflects...
Flym acts as a bridge between his radical friends and the legal establishment. Indeed, he is often the only communications link between the two. He tries hard to emphasize, however, that Flym the lawyer is dominant over Flym the political idealist: "I'm craftsman," he says. "What I'm interested in, in these cases, is more the legal issues than the political questions. But the political questions often raise fundamental legal issues." And a lawyer's pragmatism colors the idealist's view of a controversy: "While there's a lot of heat generated, it's a matter of starting...