Word: mason
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...century, when D.H. Lawrence, Georgia O'Keeffe and other writers and artists settled in its environs. They were outsiders, and Santa Fe has since become, with some disgruntlement, a city full of outsiders-many of them cosmopolitan and gifted. Neil Simon and his actress wife Marsha Mason have taken a house. So has Movie Actress Amy Irving. Watergate Figure John Ehrlichman, now a writer, frequents the bar of the fashionable, crowded Pink Adobe restaurant. According to the weekly Santa Fe Reporter, the town supports 25 to 30 fast-food restaurants and an astonishing 70 art galleries. The coyly named...
...they consumed the passionate skill and, indeed, the entire lives of generations of carpenters and stonecutters. The building of a cathedral, after all, is mystical work. It requires men to celebrate the glory of God in stone, with each individual stone serving as the unique calling card of the mason who finishes it and sets it in place. The architectural reach toward heaven drove men to build ever higher, to put in larger and larger windows, to shape cathedrals of lighter and lighter stone until, at places like Beauvais and Amiens, cathedrals seemed to be made of wind and glass...
...complicated bits-perpendicular tracery, buttresses, gables, turrets and pinnacles. From the blueprints, he designs each stone individually on a numbered job card marked with height, width, length. There is also a scale drawing to show the apprentice stonecutter what the finished stone should look like. "To be a good mason you must have an eye for surfaces," says Bambridge. "You must visualize the finished job before you start, so when you drop down into the stone with your chisel, you know where you are headed. Keep your elbow tucked tightly to your side. Don't tap the stone like...
...masons say a man will rub enough skin from his hands to make an ankle-length smithy's apron before he masters the art of cutting stone worthy of dressing a cathedral. But in return he is the apple of God's eye, as this stoneworkers' fable illustrates: There was once a mason's wife who enjoyed watching her husband work in the cathedral while she sewed. The bishop knew them both and it became ritual to exchange pleasantries. One day the mason told the bishop his wife was dying and dearly wished to be laid...
...Mason Program was "never an ideal setup" as it was. Perkins says, adding that he has worked to integrate more HIID programs into the K-School's curriculum, which had traditionally emphasized domestic issues...