Word: journeymen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Forced to learn from local journeymen artists, Copley unwittingly developed a native vision. His metallic colors, hard lines and precise realism produced steely likenesses of such colonial worthies as Paul Revere, Samuel Adams, John Hancock. Learning by trial and error, he made his clients sit for as many as 900 hours while he perfected their portraits. Rates were strictly by size: "Whole lengths 40 guineas, half lengths 20, ¼ pieces or busts...
...language, and most members of the audience have little more than a basic vocabulary consisting of amore morire, andia-mo, bene, coraggio, preghiera; Götter, Liebe, Tod, Sturm, Blut; merveille, sourire, larmes, yeux. English-language performances usually do not help because the translation is too often done by journeymen rather than by competent poets. As it is, the operagoer has the simple duty, to himself and to the work, of glancing at a libretto before he attends a foreign-language performance...
Psychological warfare is as much a part of boxing as the diets of raw steak, and before every fight the camps are full of scary stories about the mayhem inflicted on sparring partners. The journeymen pugs hired as sparring mates are not paid to make the star look bad−even if they could. Yet those in Liston's camp seem to stand in genuine awe of the 30-year-old giant who may yet prove to be one of the most powerful fighters in history. In training since the first week in May, he has trimmed...
...physicians who prescribe corrective lenses as a minor part of their specialty of treating eye disorders. Then optometrists,* who may not apply medicine or perform surgery, but measure visual defects, prescribe for them and fit lenses. Then there are the opticians. The ophthalmologists generally regard the other groups as journeymen technicians. But most ophthalmologists have been slow to see the potential demand for contact lenses, or their possible advantages; so the optometrists have filled the vacuum...