Word: journeyman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...least it is everything that O'Hara does well (if, for this master of the ear, it is understood that feeling includes hearing). The peculiar limitation of the author's great skill is that, while no one can handle sight, sound and mood better, almost any journeyman novelist can deal with plot complications with more professional ease...
...fact, all his life Lewis was by disposition a journeyman commercial writer. In his youth he sold plots to Jack London, and when he came home from Stockholm with the Nobel Prize, he sat down to write some popular magazine fiction. Like other writers whose personal tastes are those of a mass public, he viewed all his work-including his magazine stories and movie scripts-with equal seriousness...
...editor in chief totted up the expense-account tariff for their "Task Force" crusades in Europe (TIME, June 30). On the three-man, three-week, 1955 Moscow junket alone, estimated Visiting Firebrand William Randolph Hearst Jr., the tab averaged $1,000 a day. "On the other hand," prompted Fellow Journeyman Conniff, "the caviar was good, and they had a certain liquid there that didn't hurt either...
...letters cover his youth as a journeyman printer in New Orleans with his brother Jeff, his tour of duty in Washington as clerk in the Treasury and the Indian Bureau of the Interior Department and his stint as a volunteer male nurse in the gruesome military hospitals of the Civil War. Leaving his clerk's desk in the afternoon, "Loving Old Walt" (as he liked to sign himself) checked in at one of the huge whitewashed dressing stations near the capital. It is easy to raise a coarse snigger at the ambiguity of Whitman's motives for playing...
Eventually, of course, even this lonely boy drifts out of memory-but haunted readers are the reward of the artist, not the journeyman...