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...range effect of family responsibilities on young men. Their attitude to their studies is naturally a more "practical" one; they concentrate on subjects that will get them through seminary fastest and guarantee the best posts-"the 'how-to' courses which will make them the skilled technicians and craftsmen for whom the best market waits." The unmarried student, on the other hand, has more freedom to grow in breadth and depth by ranging through the offbeat areas and collateral readings. "Is there not some danger," asks the Century, "that men who spend seminary time learning to be homemakers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Diapers in Divinity School | 4/28/1958 | See Source »

...current Tiffany exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Crafts is the same unease that has sent architects back to Gaudi for inspiration. In an age when man's vision seems increasingly hemmed in by a machine-made environment, there is an urge to draw new strength from adventuresome craftsmen who knew how to combine richness with beauty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: NEW ART NOUVEAU | 3/10/1958 | See Source »

...poets are too many for discussion here. They range from Peter Jones (who edits an English little magazine) to Peter Heliczer. Even I. A. Richards and a San Francisco poet contribute minor works. Taken as a lump (or, with Mr. Wyman's permission, a "citadel") the poets are craftsmen of word and form, but that's about all. Images like "oval charm" and "cockpit of empyreuma" sound better sans inspection. And some of the poems rhyme...

Author: By Arnold Bennett, | Title: The Little Magazine | 3/5/1958 | See Source »

...cause of the strike lay deep in the troubled heart of modern unionism, where skilled laborers and craftsmen are fighting for their due in a world of monolithic industrial unionism. The Motormen's Benevolent Association, made up of 80% of the subway motormen, had been fighting the domination of the city's transit system by a powerful professional Irishman, Transport Workers Union President Mike Quill, and the determination of the mayor's Transit Authority to deal only with politically powerful T.W.U. Last year, when the motormen challenged Quill in a fight, a state supreme court enjoined M.B.A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CITIES: End of the Line | 12/23/1957 | See Source »

Secret Color. Buddhism, imported from China, flourished in the arts, creating prototypes of figures in gold and bronze that were later imitated by Japanese craftsmen. But it was in ceramics that Korea led the Oriental world. Even Chinese connoisseurs of the Sung dynasty praised the artistry and craft of Korean potters of the Koryo dynasty (A.D. 918-1392), proclaiming: "The secret color of Koryo is first under Heaven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART TREASURES FROM KOREA | 12/16/1957 | See Source »

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