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...partisan ones. When he overthrew Charles Halleck as House minority leader, he managed to create the impression that he and Gerald Ford had split the rebel forces. Actually, they were united, and the putative split was a ploy. Once, just after Minority Leader Ford and his eminence grise. Laird, gave a critical talk on Viet Nam policy, advocating more bombing and naval action, Laird said to a friend: "Jerry really believes that bombing baloney." Now his reputation for sleight of tongue has become a bit of a bother...
After receiving an honors BA from Princeton in 1958, he went to the London School of Economics to study political philosophy. While participating in anti-nuclear campaigns, he met Lord Russell. Schoenman feels it is "very flattering, but a bit fatuous," to be considered the eminence grise behind the 95-year-old philosopher. "What's it done with--telepathy?" he asks sarcastically...
...globe-spanning Chase Manhattan Bank, called him "the leading banker in the world." Suave, witty and self-assured, Abs was more than a banker: a confidant and consultant to monarchs and politicians, he became an unofficial ambassador to the world's financial centers and the undisputed éminence grise of German business...
...relative quiescence of the Communists on the battlefield is less satisfying than it is annoying to U.S. commanders, who are spoiling for a fight they are confident they can win-and for an end to the suspense as to what the Reds will do next. The North Vietnamese eminence grise with the answer to that question is tiny, plump General Vo Nguyen Giap (pronounced Zhop), 55, Commander in Chief of the North Vietnamese army, Hanoi's Defense Minister and Deputy Premier, who shares with China's Mao Tse-tung a reputation as the world's foremost practitioner...
...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...