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...eight novels, four books of verse and two collections of short stories he wrote in those years pleased only a small group of admirers. Ramuz returned to his native canton of Vaud. shook off Parisian literary influences and identified himself in his work with peasants, small craftsmen and woodchoppers. As a result, the French critics who had ignored him as a Left-Banker in Paris began to praise him extravagantly, tried without success to get Ramuz admitted to the French Academy's "Immortals." When Ramuz died last spring at 69, the Swiss Government declared a national day of mourning...
...cavalry borrowed the name. Says Webster: " 'Fiddler's Green' is the imagined Elysian field of sailors and vagabond craftsmen, where credit is good and there is always a lass, a glass, and a song...
...smashed cathedrals are being rebuilt about as they were originally constructed-by a handful of aged craftsmen, hardly able to continue their work for lack of food, slowly and carefully chipping at large blocks of stone with hand chisels. As to the time it would take, one hoary stonecutter, working in the ruins of a Nurnberg cathedral, calmly said, "Oh, maybe 25 years...
...three months each summer, masons, carpenters and other craftsmen from the Scottish mainland work, pray and live together with the 30-odd "young ministers of the Community. The rebuilding of lona is a means to an end, and has a twofold purpose: 1) to learn "what it means to be 'corporately separate' for the 20th Century. By our worship and our common life on the island we get something of ... a microcosmic but concentrated foretaste of what a 'Congregation' should be"; 2) "to sit at meat with craftsmen brothers who . . . are in touch all winter with...
...Craftsmen and clerics alike obey a strict and simple regimen of devotion during their three months on Iona. Throughout the rest of the year both groups follow a daily Rule, and meet at intervals. While the Iona craftsmen spend their nine months on the mainland at their regular jobs, the ministers-each of whom has signed up for two years-go forth to preach in small towns, organize community projects in crowded industrial cities, or work in parishes that' are trying to apply the lona principles...