Word: craftsman
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...blocked a quick kick. On the sideline a rumpled, prowling man in brown slacks and unbuttoned shirt scowled and grabbed a telephone. "Who came in on that?" he demanded from an unseen watcher high in the stands over Palo Alto's Stanford Stadium. Coach Hugh Duffy Daugherty. master craftsman of the most intricate offensive in modern football, was at his appointed task of trying to keep track of every block and tackle of every player on the field...
...goes. Sex is sickness, love is a torment. A lesser writer could not get away with such loaded dice, but Moravia is a first-rate craftsman and he can make the reader squirm along with his characters...
Long acknowledged as a master craftsman in an exacting trade, Bates writes with an English sense of place and social pattern; his prose often carries the gleam of England's pale sunlight. The title story is a neatly cut account of murder, told obliquely and in retrospect. A farmer kills the man he suspects of seducing his bride. Returning home after serving his sentence, the farmer finds his daughter now almost the same age his wife had been when he killed her lover. Slowly, and by indirection, the reader becomes aware that the daughter, too, could be seduced...
...upheaval which Conant carried out. "Some dentists maintain," wrote Eliot, "that a dentist, like an oculist, is a physician with a speciality, and that nothing short of the full course for the degree of Doctor of Medicine can be satisfactory; others say that a dentist is simply a fine craftsman, and that there is little use of any training except that of the eye and hand. The Harvard Dental School occupies an intermediate position, which satisfies neither of these extreme parties...
Before long Roberts had the same mixed feelings about Hillman's searching interviews. He kept telling teammates: "I'm tired of that guy following me around." But in the end, Roberts, a careful craftsman himself, loosened up and grew to admire Hillman's persistence. Even when Hillman confessed that he was a loyal Brooklyn rooter whose only son, Lemuel Serrell Hillman III, now nine, has been called "Dodger" since birth, stolid Robin Roberts merely shrugged...