Word: berensons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Louis Blues fired Coach Red Berenson and replaced him with former N.Y. Rangers mentor Emile Francis. In addition, the Blues acquired defenseman Guy Lapointe for future considerations and sent for players to Vancouver for goalie Glenn Hanlon. Toronto traded Wilf Plaiment to Quebec for Miroslav Frycer and future considerations, and the New York Rangers demoted goalie John Davidson...
...Washington (A Capitol Offense). He had also known and much liked Fletcher's wacky, lovely wife Gloria, who died driving her Jag too fast. In fairly short order, given his necessity to invoke Goethe, Swinburne, Auden, the Old Testament, Shakespeare, Conrad, Dostoyevsky, The Barber of Seville, Beethoven, Berenson, Vasari and other fonts of circumstantial wisdom, Usher stumbles into a morass of rot in Mass. As friends keep telling him, "Things don't happen to you: you happen to things...
...Presidents personally and nearly everyone else who mattered in the 20th century. He consorted with poets and politicians, philosophers and financiers. He discussed psychoanalysis with Sigmund Freud, socialism with George Bernard Shaw, economics with John Maynard Keynes, law with Louis Brandeis, Utopias with H.G. Wells, painting with Bernard Berenson and the grandeur of Charles de Gaulle with Charles de Gaulle. He also played Ping-Pong with Norma Shearer and Irving Thalberg...
...many admirers during her 25-year campaign to marry Marlborough when he and Consuelo were divorced. The art critic Bernard Berenson was mesmerized by the teen-age Gladys, and his wife, though jealous, felt the same. "She is radiant and sphinxlike ... Enchanting, but tiring. A wonderful creature, but too much of a born actress to take quite seriously. But so beautiful, so graceful, so changeful in a hundred moods, so brilliant that it is enough to turn anyone's head," she wrote, adding perceptively that "part of her mysteriousness comes from her being, as it were, sexless." There were...