Word: craftsmen
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...begun to portray farm life as something more, or less, than an idyl. In the Far West lived the gnarled misanthrope, Ambrose Bierce, writing creepy Gothic tales that pointed back to Poe and forward to Faulkner. But in general, Brooks acknowledges, it was a time of decidedly minor craftsmen, a dry season between fertile ones in American writing. The turn came as the old century flickered...
...16th Century heyday, the Imperial and Royal Institute of the Pietra Dura (Hard Stone) was one of the busiest places in Florence. The duties of its craftsmen members: turning out the intricate designs of inlaid marble and semiprecious stones with which the Medici loved to decorate their palaces and chapels. After the Medici, the art, known as stone intarsia, went out of fashion; but a handful of institute members kept its difficult technique alive, occupied themselves mainly with repairing intarsia objects in Florentine museums and copying the old-fashioned designs...
...done most to modernize the old Florentine craft is Artist Richard Blow, 47, of Manhattan. Five years ago, Blow, an old intarsia admirer and part-time resident of Florence, called together the few remaining craftsmen, convinced them that some new ideas might help revive their art. He offered financial help, the use of his studio, and a few of his own designs...
...just lucky to live at a time when a group of marvelous craftsmen, such as Mr. Rodgers, have come up with such original, fresh, healthy stuff. The theatre is in a dandy position," he added...
...spears. Fingers scooped out his eyeballs. One of his arms was torn off. Later, after Liaquat had died in hospital (see NEWS IN PICTURES), police identified the dead assassin as Said Akbar, 29, an Afghan. The weapon he had used was a Mauser-type pistol, probably made by native craftsmen of the frontier, where gunmaking is a common household industry...