Word: craftsmen
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...craftsmen on earth work with a greater sense of pride and tradition than the 39 French weavers who today make up the Manufacture des Gobelins. In an old blackened building on the outskirts of Paris whose tradition dates back to the 15th century, they keep 17 high-warp looms busy, moving their shuttles by hand much as their forefathers did in the Middle Ages. Production is slow, averaging only 20 sq. ft. per weaver annually, but the tapissiers know that what they turn out is recognized throughout the world as the finest in tapestry...
...marching fever that some unions can barely wait their turn. In Detroit last week, A.F.L.-C.I.O. Vice President Walter Reuther's United Auto Workers demanded that the contract, which still has a year to run, be renegotiated for some 200,000 pipe fitters, millrights and other craftsmen. The U.A.W. in sisted that such workers get a $1-an-hour wage hike, so as to put them on a par with other building tradesmen in the Detroit area. The Big Three turned the U.A.W. down cold, whereupon 1,300 workers picketed Chrysler headquarters with placards demanding "More...
Expect no academic prolixity. No luxuriant verbiage. No mushrooming fustianness. We have no sesquipedalians here, only careful craftsmen dedicated to fine words. Jackets and Lies for men, shorts for women with good legs, jackets and ties for women with bad legs...
Part of his strength came from a sense of tradition rooted in his dissenting German-American ancestors, who were Utopian colonists, freethinkers, socialist craftsmen and abolitionists. The rest of it came from an indestructible innocence that helped him to survive bohemia's bad art, freewheeling sex and bogus labor evangelism. He did not renounce his old causes; the secular faith of socialism simply ran out on him. "The moral content of the old radical movement has vanished altogether," he writes today. "The classics of socialist and anarchist literature seem at mid-century to speak a foolish and naive language...
...York debutantes one day, rinse an Italian princess the next, and pin a pony tail on a marquesa in Spain before nightfall (Alexandre's itinerary took him around the world twice just in the month of October). Each is accompanied by a vast retinue of apprentice craftsmen and enough apparatus (hair dryers, electric curlers, rollers, sprays, creams, nets, wigs, wiglets, switches, and six varieties of scissors) to run up massive overweight charges. They do not lose money. Kenneth, for instance, charges $100 an hour or $500 a day for a house call. Alexandre gets $11 for just a wash...