Word: metier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expression from my own metier, thinking wide-screen. This new project should not be a watered-down brew of local semi-professional theatre, governed by an enormous and unwieldly board of wrangling representatives. It is a broadly-conceived plan to bring the best in drama (and music as well) from all over the world to a superb theatre in the Greater Boston community...
...painter's education for the past few years and his work is well known in the Square. That he is a person of talent and considerable ability is an acknowledged fact. It is about time for Shimizu to begin buckling down to the less glamorous chores of the metier...
...Napoleon had the schools of France been threatened with such an upheaval. In the press, oldtime maitres d'école and professors were quick to cry alarm. The government, cried one, "is trying to force the schoolteachers of France to teach according to a pedagogical system. The metier of a professor is a liberal metier and it remains with each teacher to organize his own system of instruction." By last week the whole affair had split France's educators right down the middle...