Word: metier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mythologism, city-directory leit-motives, and vertiginous romanticism of the Ring. Debussy seeks a deeper organicism in which music is not grafted onto drama or drama is used as suggestion for musical contours, but rather where music and poetry are absorbed one into the other to yield an operatic metier of innocence and foreboding disciplined by a sensibility whch treats the quietness of horror and not its gaudiness. Maeterlinsk's play expresses desolation which knows not its own emptiness, the psychology of inexpressible terrors and inexplicable sickness, or as the revenging husband Golaud says, "We cannot see the other side...
Died. Patricia Jessel, 47, mistress of theatrical malice, whose dark hair and darker voice were just the ticket for mystery lovers on both sides of the Atlantic; of a heart attack; in London. Although a versatile Shakespearean actress, the Hong Kong-born performer found her real metier as a modern villainess, won fame (and a Tony Award) for her portrayal of the calculating wife in the 1954 Broadway run of Witness for the Prosecution...
...usefully employed on the football field. He graduated a mediocre 185th in his class of 276, but one course in which he excelled was horsemanship. That led him into the cavalry and, with the army's mechanization, ultimately into the tank corps. There he came into his own metier, just in time for World...
...cook, rose to the rank of master mariner, and sailed around Cape Horn. He went to the U.S., where he crossed the continent as a hobo, worked in a Greenwich Village saloon and, while employed in a Yonkers, N.Y., carpet factory, finally realized that his metier was poetry. Thus the rough, unschooled youth of 19 set out to fashion his poems not for "the portly presence of potentates goodly in girth" but for the "dirt and the dross, the dust and scum of the earth." Such a taste was bound to shock the fastidious Edwardians, who were still doting...
...Just Good Friends." Yet with all the partying and punditing, he prepares assiduously for his classes at C.U.N.Y. and works on serious history, his original metier. He is now busy revising a textbook he coauthored, plans to return soon to his magnum opus, The Age of Roosevelt. He stretches his time by maximum utilization of material: most of his articles are on subjects he already knows, and he has a repertory of three or four lectures, which can be altered for the occasion with little extra effort, and may then be expanded into a book. His newest volume, The Bitter...