Word: potterer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bernard Leach, 72, perhaps the most renowned potter living, would certainly have won a prize if England's entries had not arrived late and missed the judging. A onetime partner of the great potter Hamada, Leach was trained in Japan, considers himself a "sort of courier between East and West." His bottles in the exhibition came from his Cornwall studio, but, he says, "both show early Chinese influence. The pattern of the tall one was combed or scratched on. For my smaller bottle I used a red which is considered impossible-a new color." ¶James Sheldon Carey...
...introduction to the show's catalogue, Juror Poor ruefully concludes that U.S. potters are not yet up to their European contemporaries. Perhaps, he says, it is because Americans "contend with more automobiles, more radios and television, more chain stores and packaging, more of all the things that induce nervousness and discontent and dissipate the patience and oneness most necessary for a potter...
...treatises on Lifemanship and Gamesmanship (TIME, Sept. 6, 1948), Potter developed his brilliant theories about how to be always one up on everyone through such ploys as the Canterbury Block* and Cogg-Willoughby's Anti-Suntan Gambit.† Potter's latest does not reach these heights, but there is highly useful advice on how to make cribside visitors feel like germ carriers, how to write an autobiography though nothing has ever happened in one's life, and how to devastate an author in a book review ("If you don't know what...
...major contribution of Potter's new handbook is the appearance of a bearded character known only as The Lawrenceman. It was never certain that he had ever actually read the works of D. H. Lawrence, but he had got hold of a few phrases and made brilliant use of them. There was, for instance, the occasion when a tweedy iconoclast named Cornelius Sticking loudly criticized a county family for putting on their best clothes to go to church on Sundays. The Lawrenceman merely looked out over his beard and asked mildly: "Is that a badness?" Sticking only managed...
Perhaps Supermanship's greatest merit lies in the fact that it should stimulate readers to develop Lifemanship ploys of their own. The first to practice with is obviously Counter-Potters. The possible scene is a cocktail party. Hostess: "And now I'd like you to meet Mr. Potter, the author." Apprentice Lifeman: "Crocker, did you say? Are you the fellow who writes all those cookbooks...