éminence grise
description: a person who exercises power or influence behind the scenes without holding an official position
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Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology
by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel · 30 Sep 2007 · 571pp · 162,958 words
, so strong was his presence. “You’re the one from the Trade Council?” said the Benjamin at the lectern. Yes, I am. I am the eminence grise of the Council on World Trade and Endeavor. “Fantastic. Well, here’s all of ’em. Get on with it.” Again the eminence smiled, and again
The Best of Best New SF
by Gardner R. Dozois · 1 Jan 2005 · 1,280pp · 384,105 words
, so strong was his presence. “You’re the one from the Trade Council?” said the Benjamin at the lectern. Yes, I am. I am the eminence grise of the Council on World Trade and Endeavor. “Fantastic. Well, here’s all of ’em. Get on with it.” Again the eminence smiled, and again
The Lost Art of Dress
by Przybyszewski, Linda · 442pp · 121,863 words
competence at universities because so much time is required to master their fields of study. Women scholars hope to become what the French call an éminence grise—literally, a gray eminence—an elder of wisdom and distinction. But you can’t become an éminence unless you are willing to let your hair
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, Mary Brooks Picken, Grace Margaret Morton, Alpha Latzke, and other Dress Doctors left lovely images of themselves taken when they had achieved the status of éminences grises. The Dress Doctors asked their readers to embrace age. “If her mind has kept pace with the years and is now a storehouse of inspiring
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-haired woman shows off an elegant little suit made by her own expert hands during their annual fashion show. The applause increases tenfold if this éminence grise walks with the slightest of limps. The Dress Doctors knew that youth is not always a happy age. One of Dorée Smedley’s friends saw
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Gowns ball, 121 hostess, 124 tea, 124, 154 See also Evening gowns Goyette, Ida, 28 Grammar of Ornament (Jones), 42 Gray (color), 239 Gray eminence (éminence grise), 244 Great Depression, 12, 91, 124, 168 impacts of, xiii, 125, 189, 241 Thrift Movement and, 144–146, 148, 150, 182 Greek curse, 67–68
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prerequisite for, 11 The Language of Fashion (Picken), xi Lanvin-Castillo, 251 The Last Supper (da Vinci), xii Latzke, Alpha, 261 on complexions, 223 as éminence grise, 244 on family clothing budget, 171 on hostess gowns, 124 life and career of, 11, 280 on pants, 200 philosophy of, 187 on sports clothing
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), 2 Morris, Bernadine, 205, 237 Morris, William, 8, 20 Morton, Grace Margaret on angular figure, 271–272 on campus clothing, 86 on character, 286 as éminence grise, 244 on emphasis, 70, 71 on evening clothing, 121 on harmony of color, 47, 49–50, 55 life and career of, 10, 280 on rhythm
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, 215 Picken, Mary Brooks, xi (fig.), 124 on age, 243 on character, 286 on colors, 50, 51 (fig.), 56, 257 on crew necklines, 233 as éminence grise, 244 on evening clothing, 120 on good taste, 78 on housework clothing, 103, 108 on ideal wardrobe, 165–166 The Language of Fashion, xi life
The Secret World: A History of Intelligence
by Christopher Andrew · 27 Jun 2018
envoy to respond to them. Edekon was then taken to another room for a meeting with the eunuch Chrysaphius, commander of the imperial bodyguard and éminence grise of Theodosius. Over a private dinner that evening, Chrysaphius, almost certainly with the approval of the Emperor, tried to persuade Edekon to lead a plot
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du Tremblay, a Capuchin friar better known by his religious name, Père Joseph de Paris. Dressed in his grey habit, Père Joseph was the original éminence grise, a phrase which has passed into the English as well as the French language. He combined deeply mystical Catholicism with passionate loyalty to the French
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system, however, owed even more to Antoine Rossignol, who passes curiously unmentioned in most studies of the reign of Louis XIII,93 than to his éminence grise. Rossignol became the key figure, though not official head, of a new government office founded by Richelieu informally known as the cabinet noir (black chamber
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. 2 —, ‘Profiles in Intelligence: An Interview with Professor Christopher Andrew’, Intelligence and National Security, vol. 32 (2017), no. 4 Pierre, Benoist, Le Père Joseph: L’Éminence grise de Richelieu (Paris: Éditions Perrin, 2007) Piette, Diane Carraway, and Jesselyn Radack, ‘Piercing the “Historical Mists”: The People and Events behind the Passage of FISA
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(SIGINT agency), later identified by Charles Perrault of the Académie Française as one of the most ‘illustrious’ Frenchmen of the seventeenth century. 21. The original éminence grise: Père Joseph (François Le Clerc du Tremblay), a Capuchin friar in grey habit who ran Richelieu’s most important network of informants. 22. Rossignol was
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power
by Daniel Yergin · 23 Dec 2008 · 1,445pp · 469,426 words
British Admiralty for a loan. The idea for the loan was not his own, but rather had been inspired by one Thomas Boverton Redwood, "the eminence grise of British oil policy before the First World War," and a man who had a profound influence on the course of international oil developments in
Chinese Spies: From Chairman Mao to Xi Jinping
by Roger Faligot · 30 Jun 2019 · 615pp · 187,426 words
CIA in Hong Kong in the 1980s. As the great turning point of the handover dawned, Li had built up many powerful positions as an éminence grise: he was foreign affairs advisor for the Shanghai Municipal Government and honorary president of the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS). The latter, founded in
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to be convincing. Everyone knew that the vote was manipulated.” This was so true that, the day following the vote, Jiang Zemin discreetly sent his éminence grise Li Chuwen to Hong Kong, to ensure that criticisms about the election did not risk sullying the image of their candidate. Presumably they judged that
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). 3. Zeng Shan, the leader of the first Jiangxi soviet (1927–35), was the father of Shanghai’s vice-president Zeng Qinghong, Jiang Zemin’s éminence grise and the rival to his successor as president, Hu Jintao. See his biography by Su Duoshou and Liu Mianyu, Zeng Shan Zhuan, Jiangxi Chubanshe, 1999
China: A History
by John Keay · 5 Oct 2009
. Described as ‘a man from the black-headed people of the lanes and alleys’, this was Li Si, whose twentieth-century biographer considers him the éminence grise behind the First Emperor’s throne and calls him ‘China’s First Unifier’.14 An arch-practitioner of legalism and probably the composer of the
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-evaluation of demonised autocrats like Cao Cao of the Three Kingdoms and the megalomaniac Qin First Emperor. He also praised Li Si, the latter’s éminence grise who had famously censured Confucian scholars and burnt their books. When the enormity of the Great Leap tragedy could no longer be concealed, Mao invoked
The Marginal Revolutionaries: How Austrian Economists Fought the War of Ideas
by Janek Wasserman · 23 Sep 2019 · 470pp · 130,269 words
foundered. Röpke and Hunold discussed forming a new journal, Occident, to revitalize humanistic discourse in Europe. Röpke attracted the support of Hayek and the Italian éminence grise social scientist Benedetto Croce, yet Röpke’s demand for complete editorial control ran afoul of the project’s financial backers. Occident never got off the
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SCHOOL As Ludwig von Mises approached his eightieth birthday in 1961, not one but two separate groups of well-wishers prepared fetes to celebrate the éminence grise of the Austrian School. Fritz Machlup and Oskar Morgenstern, recently reunited at Princeton University, set in motion plans for an intimate gathering of the Vienna
The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made
by Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas · 28 Feb 2012 · 1,150pp · 338,839 words
to other leaders of the American Establishment, McCloy became entranced by Jean Monnet, the brilliant French brandy heir, economist, and statesman who later became the éminence grise to the Wise Men of American foreign policy. Monnet was then an international financier with Blair & Company in New York and Paris, and McCloy became
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he could not help but be a little flattered; more importantly, he longed to reassert his voice in policy making, even in the role of éminence grise. His daughter Mary recalls that when LBJ called on Acheson he would be “a little bit puffed up to be asked,” but then “disillusioned” when
Political Ponerology (A Science on the Nature of Evil Adjusted for Political Purposes)
by Andrew M. Lobaczewski · 1 Jan 2006 · 396pp · 116,332 words
for change. Andrew Lobaczewski addresses the problem of the psychopath and their extremely significant contribution to our macrosocial evils, their ability to act as the eminence grise behind the very structure of our society. It is very important to keep in mind that this influence comes from a relatively small segment of
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