Word: grise
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...death of kings implied an unimaginable catastrophe. Racism and superstition prevailed. Occupations that are now obsolete dot his plays: cooper, wheelwright, alchemist, bellman. His language glitters with marvelous words that have, alas, also become obsolete: porpentine (porcupine); swound (faint); german (akin); caitiff (wretch); borthens (the hair of corpses); grise (a stair); bisson (blind). However immortal, Shakespeare, no less than Aristophanes or Mozart, needs his modern interpreters...
...favorite saint, Ryan says, is Venice's Pope St. Pius X, whom Luciani has often cited in his sermons. (Pius X is often remembered as the Pope who condemned Modernism, but that act was largely the work of his eminence grise Cardinal Merry del Val; Luciani, though, has revered Pius as the man who encouraged frequent reception of Communion and attendance at Mass.) The Venetian connection...
Wilhite batted .448 last season, has a .361 career batting average, and corrals just about everything in sight in his Morningside Heights bailiwick. "He's got all the tools," Stenhouse says of his eminence grise at Baker field...
Rich Bengel, Fine's eminence grise in the backcourt, streamed the length of the court for an easy pair after McLaughlin called a time out. His first field goal of the night made it 18-12, as he finished the game with 17 points. The only other Crimson player in double figures was 6-ft., 9-in. center Brian Banks, who topped all scorers with 21 points, 15 of which came in the second half...
...confusion is compounded because there is no economic eminence grise in the Carter Administration. Says Blumenthal: "That label never applied to Bert [Lance] or to Charlie [Schultze] or to me, and in my judgment it probably never will. It's easy to convince yourself that you're the only one he's listening to, but that's baloney...