grey eminence


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grey eminence

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gray eminence

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the English equivalent of éminence grise
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Catherine of Siena and his unfinished historical novel, deducing the present from the past in his Grey Eminence, how Swiss teenagers read Brave New World, Huxley as a blind stay-at-home mole at Oxford 1913-16, three translations of Brave New World into Spanish, and Aldous Huxley and the paranormal.
Aldous Huxley Annual: A Journal of Twentieth-Century Thought and Beyond; Volume 12/13
Grumpy grey eminence Arthur Smith will preside over his own travelling variety show The House Of Fun on its only stop in Yorkshire.
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Curb Your Enthusiasm" has become the grey eminence of primetime.
Kudos congruity: B'cast catches cable in top Emmy noms
In a 1981 documentary called The Day after Trinity, Freeman Dyson, a reigning grey eminence of maths and theoretical physics, as well as an ardent proponent of nuclear disarmament, described the seductive power that brought us the ability to create atomic energy out of nothing:
Impotency, the writer's malady..
GREAT SCOT: View down the Great Glen RED ALERT Soho street at night GREY EMINENCE David Dimbleby HOME TRUTHS Rosie and Luke in the Rovers Return
Record tv; Scene stealer
CAULIFLOWER POWER Sam and Charlie RED ALERT Soho street at night GREY EMINENCE David Dimbleby HOME TRUTHS Rosie and Luke in the Rovers Return
We love telly; PICK OF THE DAY
But another grey eminence behind its arrival in the city was David Drew, champion of Kurt Weill and the Third Viennese School of composers who followed him, and recently arrived as director of publications for Boosey and Hawkes.
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In between we have Grey Eminence, Ape and Essence, Huxley's futurist anti-nuclear novel set in 2108, and The Devils of Loudun, his historical novel set in seventeenth-century France.
The world of paperbacks
He calls in somebody else, a troubleshooting grey eminence whose job it is to come up with the winning formula.
Nicholas Godfrey on Sunday: Hes no midfield dynamo, but hell be giving it 110 per cent - I hope
On Wednesday night this hitherto grey eminence leaped into the political spotlight when he was adopted as Labour candidate for the cosily safe seat of Normanton and took the occasion to asserting on television that Mr Brown is the most successful Chancellor for 100 years.
City View: Shameless Balls deserves award for spoken word
Palace Affair had ground conditions in her favour and held off the late challenge of Grey Eminence in the featured Axminster Carpets Cathedral Stakes in the hands of Steve Carson.
Racing: Falbrav is too good despite Dettori bid; GRAN PREMIO: Local victory
He is described by some as a ruthless master of intrigue, The Prince of Darkness and, scarcely more politely, as the grey eminence behind Tony Blair's throne.
That's another fine mess I've got you out of...; Peter Mandelson is credited with masterminding Labour's stunning election victory in 1997. In an exclusive interview for the Sunday Mercury, RICHARD WILLIAMSON finds the Northern Ireland secretary in upbeat mood but denying, of course, that the election bandwagon is rolling once more

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