Word: technician
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...successful TV technician is likely to be a college-trained mechanical wizard, a businessman and something of a psychologist. He spends his days rushing about to meet the demands of an infantile public that can't face the day without its favorite soap opera or wrestling match...
This exhibition of lithographs and woodcuts is especially interesting in its implicit commentary on each artist as creator and technician over and above whatever medium he may exploit at a given moment...
...Sweden was the only candidate for the world's most prestigious and lucrative ($55,000 a year taxfree) civil service job. Though the Russians had been peeved over his role in the U.N.'s handling of the Hungarian revolt, everyone acknowledged that this reticent and precise diplomatic technician, who never exceeds his authority but never hides behind its limitations if he sees a way of being useful, had done a good job in a frustrating position. He does so by hewing to a set of maxims. Among them: 1) "Between sovereign states, no solution is valid...
...Technician. For millions of Americans, Gromyko's televised image became a symbol of the cold war, a scowling, blue-serge embodiment of Soviet intransigence. As Russia's first U.N. representative, his nyet, uttered in the course of 26 Soviet vetoes, was a byword, and his precedent of walking out of a debate that embarrassed the Soviet Union became known as "pulling a Gromyko...
Behind the formality, observers detected a skillful diplomatic technician, in this respect second only to Molotov. He could not change the U.N. majority against him, but he could and did bog it down in technicalities and delays, until fine hot outrage was largely dissipated and the vote anticlimactic. His own bosses, slow to give him high rating, only last year made him a full member of the Central Committee. Later he accompanied B. & K. on their laughing-boy journey through India and Burma, and was seen on occasion to smile himself...