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...bureaucratic bigwigs out from behind their desks at the Pentagon. Crack down on the piggishness of defense contractors. Broadsides they were, but not from some out-of-step lefty: they were the prescriptions of Arizona's Barry Goldwater, the prospective chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, eminence grise of old-fashioned conservative Republicanism and a major general in the Air Force Reserve...
...genial political scientist, was mentioned as a likely candidate for dean of the Faculty. He didn't get the job, but instead was tapped to replace Oscar Handlin as Pfozheimer University Professor and University Librarian. Handlin moved over to the Loeb University chair, replacing retiring Law School eminence grise, Archibald Cox '34. Two other scholars also nabbed for university chairs, the highest honor Harvard can bestow on its professors: outgoing Dean of the Faculty Henry Resovsky and Business School teaching whiz Roland Christensen...
...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...