Word: craftsmanly
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...policy committee hopes the reorganization into fewer shops will reassert the School's aim of producing "educational clinicians" skilled in both theoretical and practical approaches to education. "A clinician," Sizer said, "is a master craftsman, but in a setting which is itself in a state of change...
...pity it is too, because the little hamlet of Kirrary, perched on the wild southwestern coast of Ireland, is populated with handsome and talented characters. There is Robert Mitchum, a solid, burly movie craftsman woefully miscast as Charles Shaughnessy, the weak-shanked schoolteacher. There is Trevor Howard, who makes the crustaceous Father Collins genuinely likable and credible against almost insuperable odds. In the role of Ryan's daughter Rosy, Sarah Miles is as tremulously lovely a colleen as ever graced a Kerry hillside. The elliptic, listless script is by Robert Bolt, her real-life husband...
There are novelists that almost nobody reads and almost everybody feels guilty about. Then there are novelists that nobody reads-and what's more, nobody feels he has to. On this non-must list, the Victorian George Meredith ranks high-unfairly high, argues V.S. Pritchett, an expert craftsman of satirical short stories and, at 69, still Britain's best practicing critic...
...discover and interpret the newest uses and abuses of the flag, TIME'S correspondents interviewed Americans of every age and calling. In Atlanta, Joyce Leviton talked to James Wilson, a talented black craftsman who had invented a flagstaff for auditoriums, embodying a concealed fan to make the flag ripple. He did this, he explained, because of his pride in the flag-"It looks better flying than hanging limply from the flagpole." For Washington's Paul Hathaway, searching out the meaning of the flag was an elusive assignment. "You take the flag for granted for so long that...
...articulate theoretician who prefers to be called a craftsman rather than a painter, Vasarely z was born in Hungary in 1908. He ° made a stab at medical studies. ; then signed up at the Budapest I Bauhaus, which had been established by the painter Bortnyik ' after a visit to Germany. In 1930, he went to Paris. There, he was able to make a living as a draftsman for several large publicity firms. He kept up his own experimenting on the side...