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Unlike McGinnis, best known for his classic, The Selling of the President 1968, McPhee is not a journalist. He is rather an impeccable craftsman, a quiet, careful worker whose pieces are intricate productions of exemplary quality. He is patient, willing to wait until surfaces dissolve and deeper meanings emerge. McPhee never really raises his perfectly modulated voice...
...sublime craftsman, Peterson paints in laborious detail, often from photographs he has taken with his own Nikons; he is an expert birder who has counted more than 3,000 species and, say friends, can identify a rare bird from a speeding car. Still, the work for the new book was, in his words, "slavery of a sort," involving countless 15-hour days in his studio in Old Lyme, Conn. Guarding his nearby home is a 2-ft.-high statue of Antarctica's emperor penguin, Peterson's favorite bird-some birders call him "King Penguin." Says Peterson: "I like...
INTUITION and instinot seem to have little place in McPhee's writing; McPhee is the ultimate McPhee hero, the quintessential craftsman, who uses his tools so well that he leaves almost no mark on the surfaces he touches. His work is not blemished with the bubbly acne of pain or turmoil; he knows that to address anything too close to the core will mean unsightly mess. He is too polite, too squeamish, or maybe too lazy to examine the innards, to ask his subjects to puke their guts out so he can poke around in them a little. Studs Terkel...
...powers himself and eventually converses with one of "the Purpose's" top executives, a gentleman, polite enough but obviously not an Englishman. When this personage inquires as to the source of Alfgif's powers, the reply comes: "No power at all beyond the concentration of the master craftsman...
...contained the oxides of iron and other impurities which are left in the sand when melted." It took him almost 30 years of experimentation before he found methods that produced what he wanted, including an iridescent glass that he called Favrile (from the old English word fabrile, of a craftsman) and for which he applied for a patent. Others, including John La Farge in the U.S. and Thomas Webb in England, were working along the same lines, but apparently Tiffany got there first...