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...button-down blue shirt, neat striped tie, close-clipped sideburns and Trumanesque pungencies perhaps marked him as a man of the 1950s. "What I stand for," said Henry Jackson, "comes closer to your thinking than all of the other candidates. I'm the different candidate." The sponge fishermen, tradesmen, retired couples and the rest of the audience stood up and cheered...
...created in scholarly biography, Ford's breakdowns, his fibbing, his colossal self-pity seem sad, messy, asinine and above all repetitive. He viewed publishers as "tradesmen" and quarreled with them endlessly. Ford was fond of women and attractive to them, in part because he shared with his hero Tietjens the view that you seduce "a young woman in order to be able to finish your talks with her." Yet one feels he fully deserved Violet Hunt, the intellectual succubus for whom he broke up his first marriage in 1909 and who became the model for one of fiction...
Last year labor settlements gave union construction workers an average wage raise of 18.3%, more than double the 8.1% increase in manufacturing. The real gap was even larger because construction pay was already inflated far above the national average. Building tradesmen won pay and fringe-benefit rises averaging 90.4? an hour, compared with 24.3? for workers in other industries. Many settlements will virtually double construction wages over the next three years. For example, hourly pay for Wichita operating engineers will go up from $5.40 to $10.50: Hartford, Conn., electricians, from $6.75 to $12.50; for Los Angeles sheet-metal workers, from...
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...