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...Fashion. Despite the lusty tone of much of his verse, Masefield was a gentle, mild-mannered man who thought of himself as primarily a storyteller. He was a craftsman who turned out some 70 books, including 28 of poetry, 14 novels and the rest biographies, histories and comparatively undistinguished plays. The bestialities of World War I made the romance and optimism of his work go out of fashion, for that era brought the onslaught of symbolism, Freudian introspection, T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. Masefield thought of his laureate role as "a happy duty," though such eminences as Dame Edith...
...hardy band of painters are quite content to set down their vision of reality with meticulous draftsmanship. Such is George Tooker, 46, who works painstakingly in the 14th century Florentine medium of egg tempera on gesso panels. He is unabashedly proud of being called a traditionalist and a craftsman...
Occasionally a craftsman of exceptional talent-a Matthew Pratt or Charles Willson Peale-would take up painting as a career. But producing folk art remained largely a part-time occupation of the village cabinetmaker, sign painter, stonecutter or shipwright-or was carried on by the womenfolk at home. The practitioners were nearly always self-taught, untrained in technique or even perspective, and tended to thrive far from urban cultural centers. But they made up for their deficiencies with sharp-eyed observation, an infectious joyousness in their labor, and a remarkable freshness of vision (see color...
Editor Patterson published his warm tribute to Johnston in the Constitution, and since it says so much so well about the problems confronting a conscientious craftsman reporting on the troubled South, we quote from it here as a shared salute to the memory of a colleague: "He was no angry liberal in the ideological sense. He was in fact a pretty conservative fellow. But he did not like to see little people pushed around. It was that simple with him. He didn't care what color the little people were. He held in utter contempt those political poses designed...
...typical professional and technical job is held by a college graduate see Table 3). A high school diploma is a prerequisite for the typical managerial, clerical and sales job, and for the skilled craftsman. By 1985, semiskilled jobs and service jobs will also be held typically by high school graduates...