Word: handyman
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Docile Dinosaurs. Though he boasts a 1919 engineering degree from Stevens Institute of Technology Calder talks as laconically about his work as any straw-sucking Yankee handyman. "I do a little of this and a little of that," he allows. Last year he made mostly stabiles, predominantly black, which stand out as sharply as docile dinosaurs against the pastel countryside. Marveled the art critic of Paris' prestigious Le Monde: "Is this not America, embodied by an armament so firm and yet so open?" Calder's neighbors also approve of his activities. The Touraine, they recall proudly...
...been called by God, returned to Fort Worth's Baptist seminary, and in 1959 was ordained. Only a few months later, at Johnson's urging, Moyers finally went to Washington, where the Senator began to lean heavily on him as a speechwriter and all-round political handyman...
...been made simple, sterile, and soprano during his stay in a concentration camp. There are two Aloises, one wishing only to breed rabbits and sing in the town choir, thus frustrating and embittering his wife who longs for children, and the other an overly indoctrinated and obtuse handyman who embarrasses and deflates his neighbors as they delicately change tack...
...theirs was a rather normal city. Both New York and Los Angeles had had nine stranglings since last summer; Chicago, which seems to go in more for bullets, had had none. But the death of Bessie Goldberg brought fear back to Boston. At week's end, a Negro handyman was arrested and held on suspicion of her strangling. And Bostonians could only wait and wonder whether he had killed nine, or fewer, or none...
Smith came to the Goldberg house Monday in response to Mrs. Goldberg's call to a State Employment Agency for a handyman to help her clean her house before a party...