Word: tradesman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people of Rhodes seem unaffected by their historical promimence or the ever-present threat of war. In the city of Rhodes, life continues as it has for centuries: a tradesman prepares his foodstuffs for market, a group of scholars pause to talk on a medieval street...
Neither administration indifference nor tradesman laziness has anything to do with the House's problems, Bossert said in his speech...
...Remember that time is money," Benjamin Franklin wrote in his Advice to a Young Tradesman in 1748. "Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more, and so on ... He that kills a breeding sow destroys all her offspring to the thousandth generation...
...charge. "I guess I should take it as a personal compliment when a doctor sends his wife to me," he says. Dr. Hugh Miller, a Newton, Mass., internist, feels that caring for colleagues is one of the things that sets doctors apart from others. "If you're a tradesman, then act like one," he says. "If you're a professional, then you should offer professional courtesy...
...with laconic, seemingly perfunctory responses such as "Oh, yes," "Ah, well," "Really?" but Director Lindsay Anderson has orchestrated these in a stylized contrapuntal flow that achieves the repetitive impact of similarly sparse dialogue in Pinter and Beckett. Gielgud and Richardson are a beautifully complementary pair, the dandy and the tradesman, Gielgud's elevated clarinet tones v. Richardson's deeper bassoon. When Gielgud narrows his eyes he seems to be glimpsing the Elysian Fields; when Richardson widens his, he seems to be devouring a plate of sausages. Gielgud has a troubled introspective psyche; Richardson tries to rout his spooks...