Word: stonemason
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...Forces." Ultimately, what affects the individual most deeply is not the physical organization of his life, but the spiritual view he has of himself. The Medieval stonemason may not really have left a far more personal mark on a cathedral than the Detroit assembly-line worker leaves on a car, but he thought of himself and of his work as more important...
Lord Hawke's worst fears were realized in 1952 when, in an effort to break a string of defeats, Professional Cricketer Len Hutton, a stonemason's son, was chosen to captain England in the Test Match with Australia. Tradition got additional body blows when Hutton and another Player were knighted by the Queen. Recently the gap between cricketers has become increasingly absurd, as it developed that Gentlemen were making more money out of the game than were the Players. Ted Dexter, currently leading England in the Test series against Australia, is an amateur who rakes in the cash...
...Opera-Set World. It has been said that if the missing "bundle of many pages" that formed Piranesi's autobiography ever came to light, it would rival Cellini's great book in raciness. But only the bare facts of his life are known. The son of a stonemason, he was born in a small village not far from Venice. His uncle was a successful engineer and architect, and Piranesi started out to be an architect too. He read Palladio, studied the majestic stage designs that were the triumph of the Venetian theater. Even so, Venice seemed a stifling...
...with inanities-candelabra that cast no light, bas-reliefs that conceal the beauties of the structure. Yet today Chartres again stands serene, outcropping grass and flowers, bathed within with blue and red and changing light. "This building is like bread. You have to bake it every day." says one stonemason of Chartres. "All the time we pull out stones, replace them with new ones...
...toughen their fighting fingers, contestants had long practiced such tricks as pulling a string of five coal carts up an incline, or tugging along a 4½-ton truck. Top challenger Willi Lehner, 36, a 230-lb. stonemason from Unterpeissen-berg, was fond of hanging suspended by his finger from the claw of a derrick. Dressed in their holiday leather knickers and green felt hats, the wrestlers wound their legs around steel stools (wooden chairs would snap like toothpicks), and at the umpire's command "Auf!" tried to pull their opponent's hand across a line drawn...