Word: craftsmanly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that TV newsmen are acutely aware of the dangers this new situation presents and, even in the most heated moments, do their best to guard against them. Anatomy is neither self-critical nor self-congratulatory. It is, rather, what any good news story ought to be-a cool, objective, craftsman-like report on the way one interesting, quite typical happening worked out. Good show...
Just as Forster had difficulty accepting his own homosexuality, he never seemed sure of the value of his "indecent" stories. Periodically he destroyed batches of them, not in "moral repentance" but out of "a craftsman's dissatisfaction...
Clearly the physician cannot have the upper-hand in decision making. We must view him as a craftsman with indispensible technical expertise, but we cannot allow him to assume the position...
...CONTEMPORARY physician is not a divinely-endowed medicine man, and yet society has dictated that he have God-like attributes. Although he is actually a craftsman, many would deny him the human right to be fallible. He is not supra-human, but rather he is subject to the same fallibility as his human peers. The contemporary American physician enjoys an inflated aura of ultra-professionalism, one not so readily attainable by any other occupational group in our society. Indubitably this in itself has become a source of contention between the doctor and his patient, paternalism being the most definable...
Throughout, Steichen was a meticulous craftsman. Much of his art lay in his impeccable and patient sense of selection; he could, and did, shoot a thousand frames to pick one image. And he was very much a functionalist. "If my technique, imagination and vision are any good," he once observed, "I ought to be able to put the best values of my noncommercial and experimental photography into a pair of shoes, a tube of toothpaste, a jar of face cream, a mattress or any object I want to light up and make humanly interesting in an advertising photograph...