Word: grise
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reacted unfavorably to the whole project. Why do it at all? Like a Tiffany vase without a mouth, what's it for? Speaking of conception as well as of language, Stanly Kunitz remarks "Berryman is tempted to inflate what he cannot subjugate." The effort to conquer an old emminence grise from the American past may be thought of as a false one, a spurious gesture of research toward a subject that is just not real...
...Laureano López Rodó, 45, Planning Minister and development boss. So soft-spoken that he appears almost self-effacing, López Rodó is known as Franco's eminence grise - partly because everything about him, including his hair, suit, socks, tie and personality, seems grey. The appearance is deceiving. Son of a Catalan industrialist, he spent much of the civil war as an under ground Nationalist agent (code number: 711) in Republican Barcelona, went on to become Spain's youngest law professor, at 25, and an international authority on public administration. He is an avid...
Important as it is, Moyers' role is often exasperated. He is no éminence grise, for Johnson is loath to delegate power; and when he does, it is never on a full-authority basis, as was the case with Dwight Eisenhower and Sherman Adams, or, to a lesser degree, with John F. Kennedy and Brother Bobby. The most Moyers can do is nudge the President, but he does so with less trepidation than anyone whose initials are not L.B.J. When the President got to talking at a recent luncheon, it looked as if he would ramble on until dusk...
...provincial professor's 1956 essay went virtually unnoticed-except by some far more influential economists in Moscow who had already been rethinking the system. Perhaps the most important was Vasily Nemchinov, a mathematical eminence grise regarded as the dean of Soviet economists. He saw in Liberman a potential stalking horse for all the reformers, invited him to Moscow. When in 1962 the economy's growing malaise could no longer be ignored by the Kremlin, Nemchinov persuaded Khrushchev to give Liberman's theories a showcase in Pravda. On Sept. 9, 1962, Liberman's "The Plan, Profits...
...pressure, Beaverbrook finally maneuvered his hero into the famed Carlton Club meeting at which Law captained a revolt of Tory M.P.s that dissolved the coalition and toppled the Big Beast. Though Law won the election, he was Prime Minister for only seven months-and confounded his eminence grise by rejecting Beaverbrook's vision of imperial Utopia...