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Another touchstone is the mirror, developed by Venetian craftsmen. Observes Mary McCarthy: "The perennial wonder of Venice is to peer at herself in her canals and find that she exists-incredible as it seems. It is the same reassurance that a looking-glass offers us: the guarantee that we are real." In its decay, Venice is frozen in a kind of narcissistic trance with each Venetian "a connoisseur of Venice," and somehow slightly saddening in his obsessive concern with sacred artistic relics...
...warm reception was a good indication of "what a big need the museum is going to fill." Richly endowed with cash* and energy. Craftswoman Webb started her crusade for handicrafts back in the Depression '305 as a home-based relief project, later founded the nonprofit American Craftsmen's Council, which started its own craft training school (now part of Rochester Institute of Technology), its own magazine (Craft Horizons; circ. 15,000), and Manhattan's America House, Ltd., devoted to selling U.S. craft products...
...slab screen in bronze and chrome. Pointing out that the exhibit will travel, Aileen Osborn Webb said that she does not "think of the museum as a New York activity." By sending shows on tour she hopes to raise standards and open new horizons for creative craftsmen all over...
...Knowing craftsmen in the dog-story game have practically made a convention of the tragic ending, and Author Gipson is not the man to trifle with convention. So Old Yeller has to go. But with his sure knowledge of Texas frontier life, a brace of engaging heroes and a loose-jointed, simple style to match, Author Gipson can probably depend on a substantial crowd of dog lovers eager to follow Old Yeller all the way to his bier...
...David McDonald Sr. had been a union man since he arrived in the U.S. from Wales, was hustled out of Springfield, Ill. for union activity there. Dave's mother, Mary Kelly McDonald, was the daughter of an officer of the Sons of Vulcan, an early union for iron craftsmen. Both her brothers were union men. After a brief, unsuccessful interlude of trying to run a saloon on the south side of the Monongahela River, the elder McDonald finally went into the Jones & Laughlin rolling mill as a guide setter. One day in 1915 a piece of hot steel sliding...