Word: goldsmithing
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...quite cold-bloodedly clear about its plans for the farm of the future. It emphatically does not subscribe to the notion that inefficient farmers must be kept on the land for the sake of tradition. Not for Nixon or Butz or Shultz the sentiment of the English poet Oliver Goldsmith: "But a bold peasantry, their country's pride/ When once destroyed can never be supplied." "Farming isn't a way of life," says Butz. "It's a way to make a living." He regards as inevitable the growing consolidation of farms, while marginal ones close down...
...Francis brought some of the best Italian artists of the day: Rosso Fiorentino, Francesco Primaticcio and Niccolo dell'Abate. Even Benvenuto Cellini spent several years, from 1540 to 1545, in the King's employment, making statues and, as a culmination of his skill as a goldsmith, the famous gold saltcellar (now in Vienna) that he finished in 1543. The Italians' work set a new cultural norm for France and turned Fontainebleau into a hothouse of "advanced" style. Moreover, the palace and its workshops continued to be an art center for more than 50 years after Francis...
Ellman, who taught at Harvard from 1946 to 1951, currently holds the Goldsmith professorship at New College, Oxford. He is the first American to hold this post...
...weighed 140 Ibs. and came from Latin America. But he was Peruvian, born on Christmas Day, 1925, in the ancient Inca town of Cajamarca, which makes him 48, not 38, this year. His father was not an academic, but a goldsmith and watchmaker named Cesar Arana Burungaray. His mother, Susana Castaneda Navoa, died not when Carlos was six, but when he was 24. Her son spent three years in the local high school in Cajamarca and then moved with his family to Lima in 1948, where he graduated from the Colegio National de Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe and then studied...
Ellmann has taught English and Irish literature since 1970 at Oxford as the first American to hold the Goldsmith professorship at New College...