Word: metier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sacre Cordon Bleu! French Master Chef René Verdon, 41, who steamed out of the White House kitchen complaining about the Texas menus, has gone to work as "culinary consultant" to the Hamilton Beach Division of the Scovill Manufacturing Co. in Racine, Wis. Le metier: touring the U.S. to demonstrate electric blenders and knives and whoop it up for the company cookbook, which recommends such delicacies as hamburger soup, crab-meat corn chowder, and baked honey-orange ham slice...
...feline bachelor, a connoisseur of wit and, even more, of social oddities and human blemishes. Horace carefully examined every ointment, hoping to discover a fly in it, minutely tested every piece of armor, hoping to encounter a crack; yet in all this there was less malice than sense of metier. As Beau Brummell dressed for future ages, or Lucullus dined, Walpole peered into corners. But he had, too, his more special, often laborious pursuits: Strawberry Hill, the house he built to his own design at Twickenham, virtually ushered in Britain's Gothic Revival, as his novel The Castle...
...like the composer Rameau, Pirandello first turned to the stage at the age of 50, and there wrought his finest work. He had begun as a poet, and then gained renown as a novelist. So he had plenty of writing experience when he decided the theatre was his true metier...
...Advance has more or less circuitously discovered its metier; I suspect that as it grows older it will stick to what it does best. To be sure, it must do that better. Without exception, its features are excruciatingly dull, and many, indeed, are wretchedly written. I suppose they will improve. Advance will soon be very rich, they will attract learned and important contributors. The thought that they seem already to have forgotten the larger things they hoped to do is only briefly painful...