Word: workmanship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Early in their history, the Japanese learned to conserve the natural mate rials of their narrow archipelago, and their arts reflect this economy. A rice bowl, a fob (or netsuke), a lantern, kites and kimonos-each became a masterpiece of workmanship. In fact, not until the late 19th century was there even a word for fine arts, as opposed to mingei, or folk skills. As Manhattan's Asia House Gallery currently shows (see opposite page), the roots of Japanese art lie deep in its tradition of anonymous craftsmanship...
...persuaded Chicago's Marshall Field & Co. to do the same. It was the fussy era in children's fashions, a day that called for ruffles and ribbons and starched puffed sleeves. Mrs. Eiseman preferred simple styles, fine fabrics and an elegance not of ornament but of workmanship. Marshall Field ordered $3,000 worth, sold out in a month. Florence Eiseman, Inc. was in business...
This middle class, especially in the Southwest, sees Washington as pressuring courts to release criminals, protecting labor unions to keep workmanship down, secularizing religion in schools and "giving people something for nothing." He added that this is not an expression of an alienated fringe, but of a large, dissatisfied middle class...
After Williams made his charges, Matt McCloskey, who is already being sued for $4,908,358 by the Justice Department for "defective workmanship" on an $11.8 million Veterans Administration hospital in Boston, denied everything, saying his company had sent a check only for the amount Reynolds had billed it. And with Republicans in full cry on the issue of morality in Government, President Johnson announced that he had ordered the FBI to investigate the McCloskey case. It was a pretty good bet that no FBI report would be made public before November...
...blameless. In arbitration, even the loser's good name is safeguarded: hearings are closed to the public and awards are kept secret. As some lawyers see it, the greatest merit of arbitration in business disputes is that experts decide the outcome. In a dispute over faulty workmanship in houses, for example, the A.A.A. panel consisted of an architect, a building-materials manufacturer, and an insurance executive specializing in housing matters. To make sure it has the right experts to rule on any imaginable controversy, the A.A.A. maintains a list of 13,000 available arbitrators with special knowledge...