Word: craftsman
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...result is something very like an ecstatic vision. Readers who believe that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in most contemporary philosophy may agree with Reader W. H. Auden: "I think he's an uncertain craftsman, but I don't care...
...rules based on the findings. In practice, the most notable expression of Natural Moral Law was, and is, the English common law. Under the acceptance of Natural Moral Law, Europe achieved a relatively high degree of order, applicable to all phases of life, alike "to the work of the craftsman and to the policies of the princes." If Christian morality was not universally practiced at all times, it was at least universally accepted in the West as a guide for action, a beacon, a standard...
...playboy during most of his 55 years that many an admirer thinks of him as a brilliant dilettante. Actually, as Kiss Me, Kate proves better than any of his previous work, he is one of the most thoroughly trained musicians among U.S. popular composers. He is as painstaking a craftsman as any. He is no less rigorously professional in his approach to what his good friend, Actor Clifton Webb, calls "the perfectly regulated life...
...Schoenberg. His Survivor from Warsaw was due for performances in London and Paris. Last month the New York Philharmonic-Symphony played his early Five Pieces for Orchestra and a Manhattan critic wrote: "It was something of a discovery for audiences to find [them] works of a poet and a craftsman hardly surpassed by any musician now among us. Of course, they were written nearly 40 years ago, and had been so successfully reviled by commentators . . . that the performance has an element of daring." Manhattan's New Friends of Music, in a daring mood too, is playing a season...
...Catalina having become a famous actress, make it more than plain. The book is a suave and ironic rewriting of the classic morality tales of English literature, its lesson as plain as the moral of A Christmas Carol or The Great Stone Face. Since it is written by a craftsman, Catalina has enough interest and enough humor to keep it going, and not too much of anything-not too much of the supernatural to be unbelievable, not too much wit to tax the reader's attention, not too much irony to make it too involved, not too much skepticism...