Word: renown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...great renown...
...tiny winding streets are empty. The houses of Provincetown, for all their beauty and quaintness, don't quite match their renown. The ridiculous splotches of color on the old New England clapboard make them look garish rather than festive. Lewis' New York Store is closed. About the only scene of activity seems to be the wharf, naturally enough in a fishing town. It's calmer here, on the inside of the tip, and the tide is low, very low. A dinghy stands adrift on the black silt, waiting for the cold waters to come back; the rickety, nearly rotten legs...
...Carlyle Hotel, French-born René was hired by John F. Kennedy in April 1961. He made a memorable White House debut with trout cooked in Chablis as the entrée at a luncheon for former British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. The Kennedys' treasure later won international renown with such dishes as chicken in champagne sauce and an incomparable quenelles de brochet. But one President's meat is another's poisson, and under L.B.J. the mâitre soon found himself tasting such Texas delicacies as Pedernales River chili and purée of garbanzos...
...beets with cream all over them," he declared with grim finality after last week's dinner for Pakistan's President Mohammed Ayub Khan. And so, at week's end, he quit the Great Society for café society, probably in Manhattan, where a chef of renown can command impressive sums for preparing dishes never dreamed of by Howard Johnson-or Lyndon...
...people evolving toward the light." But after 102 episodes, there has been little perceptible evolution. Last week's three chapters, for instance, interwove the multiple subplots without even a glimmer of psychic peace or a fleeting, joyous guffaw. Dr. Vincent Markham, back home after winning "international renown as the Albert Schweitzer of the Andes," was, it turned out, on the brink of divorce because he could not relate to women, and on the road to suicide because of sibling rivalry with a twin brother. The town's most dynamic executive, David Schuster, was feeling trapped at the office...