Word: tradesmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Just as U.S. servicemen and college students tack pictures of Raquel Welch or travel posters on their walls, so merchants and tradesmen in 18th and 19th century Japan delighted in cheap, mass-produced wood-block prints, or hanga. These genre pictures showed well-known actors or courtesans of the day, picturesque views of Mount Fuji and picaresque travel scenes. They were known as ukiyo-e, literally "pictures of the floating world," because to devout Buddhists everyday existence was a transient stage in man's journey to nirvana. Yet the lasting charm and skill with which the Japanese craftsmen imbued...
...that allow "research"?much of it trivial?to overshadow everything else. Jacques Barzun likens the current U.S. campus to the medieval guild which "undertook to do everything for the town." The university today, he writes in The American University, "aids the poor, redesigns the slums, advises the small tradesmen, runs a free clinic, gives legal aid, and supplies volunteers to hospitals, recreation centers and remedial schools. The only thing the guild used to provide and we do not is Masses for the dead, and if we do not it is because we are not asked...
...country, the system is unique in Europe, has spawned thriving sales of everything from cheap trinkets to Citroëns, is a major underpinning of Parisian haute couture. Now the government is moving to cool the trade with new rules that went into effect last week, tangling both tradesmen and tourists in customs red tape...
...economy and disturbing the peace of the West Bank. Those professional refugees are not wanted back under any conditions. But Israel is perfectly willing to admit "hardship cases" -such as children separated from their parents. And it is willing to continue the return flow of legitimate farmers, shopkeepers and tradesmen who can contribute to the economy of their homeland. The applications of at least 21,000 such refugees have already been approved, but more than 7,000 of them were still on the other side of the Jordan when the time for return officially...
...charges is in need of "rejuvenation." Then again, he has an aging problem of his own. More than 40% of the U.A.W.'s 1,500,000 members are under 30, whereas Reuther turns 60 on Sept. 1. He is having particular trouble with the 200,000 U.A.W. skilled tradesmen, who long for the 13% wage increases that building tradesmen are getting in some cities and complain that Reuther has debased their "dignity" by paying more attention to the needs of ordinary production workers. Reuther has promised to "go to the mat" for at least one of their demands-that...