George Dunbar, 92, is a longtime éminence grise in this city's art scene.
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THE term "Fifth Beatle" conjures up the impression of a Svengali or sinister éminence grise.
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But the one-time wunderkind turned éminence grise is eager to look forward, not back.
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Tom Lee, who ran the On Leong Tong, on the other hand, was an éminence grise.
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"We have to change the name," thundered Alexander Liberman, the formidable éminence grise of Condé Nast.
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The congressional report treated her with both respect and misogyny, as the éminence grise behind the Klan.
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Milan's men's week used to stretch into Tuesday, with Giorgio Armani, the city's éminence grise, closing out the festivities.
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Now, on the verge of the next quarter-century, the one-time wunderkind is turning into an éminence grise.
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In this new framework for corporate governance, the role of éminence grise is filled by proxy-advisory firms like ISS.
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Li Ka-shing, the richest person in Hong Kong by far, is widely regarded as the Tang Camp's éminence grise.
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Yet, even if Mr Putin became the éminence grise of the Russian Judo Federation, it would only delay the fatal moment.
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If he wants to be seen as an éminence grise, hanging around TV green rooms and listened to on policy matters?
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She'll be joined onstage by fellow Brits (Liam Payne, Stormzy), a Cuban-American (Camila Cabello), and the éminence grise of Ireland, U2.
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Jones is a big Trump backer, and has frequently had both the Republican nominee and his éminence grise Roger Stone on his show.
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"The best organizations are the ones that blend the éminence grise wisdom with the energy of young men and young women," he said.
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" At some point, Willie Mae Ford Smith, the éminence grise gospel pioneer, treats a St. Louis service to a version of "That's Alright.
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He claimed that Mohamed Mediène, a retired spy chief who was the longtime éminence grise of Algerian politics, asked him to oversee a transitional period.
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Jared Kushner, reportedly the new power behind the throne in the Trump administration, has tried to borrow luster from another presidential éminence grise, Henry Kissinger.
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He certainly resembles Cromwell in being an éminence grise, a shadowy advisor whose power derives from sharing the same basic outlook as his lord and master.
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Katherine Bernhardt, who has been sarcastically transforming such elements for two decades, is the show's éminence grise, represented by a new Day-Glo Pink Panther painting.
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The figure of the Jew in the anti-Semitic imagination typically presents as the éminence grise—the shadow behind the throne, the puppeteer behind the curtain.
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It was only in the 2158s that Mr. Bergé, who had always portrayed himself as an éminence grise, began to step out of Mr. Saint Laurent's shadow.
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He has gone from being an enfant terrible to an éminence grise, beloved of even the staid BBC, which encourages him to be as colorful as possible.
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Mr. Hofeller holds a Ph.D. in government, helped develop the first computerized redistricting system for California's State Assembly, and has long been the mapmaking éminence grise in the Republican Party.
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OK, on a serious note, the Democratic National Committee did significantly alter the way in which superdelegates -- the éminence grise of the Democratic Party -- factor into the nominating process over the weekend.
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Pierre Godé, a French lawyer whose steely negotiation skills and strategic vision made him the éminence grise of the world's largest luxury group, LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, has died in Nice, France.
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These novices will be counting on the expertise of the son of the Lakers' éminence grise, who stormed off years ago when he clashed with the head coach, the one who dated the owner's daughter.
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The year before, Mel Gussow of The New York Times described him as part of a wave of young, politically righteous dramatists, and since then, Mr. Hare has grown into the role of liberal drama's éminence grise.
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He has a record of public service to be proud of and can spend his retirement years making money, speaking about issues he's passionate about, and perhaps serving as something of an éminence grise in the party.
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The éminence grise of the batch, Mr. Gehry, is known worldwide for his distinctive titanium-clad Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, as well as for the Walt Disney Concert hall in Los Angeles and the Vuitton Foundation in Paris.
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Bellamy might well have remained invisible if Judith E. Stein, an art historian, had not become curious to the point of obsession with documenting his life and accomplishments as the enigmatic, self-effacing éminence grise of the New York art world.
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Instead of shying from appearing old-fashioned, Mr. O'Brien now uses that image, poking fun at himself, which was part of the joke of the Tom Cruise bit, but also earnestly embracing his status as the éminence grise of late night.
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In more recent decades, she served as a kind of center-right Democratic éminence grise, teaming up with Paul Ryan to push privatization of Medicare and block-granting of Medicaid, and working with retired Republican Senator Pete Domenici (NM) to push a deficit reduction plan.
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It's not uncommon for a 12-year-old girl to have an imaginary friend, but even so, young Addison's confidant is a little out of the ordinary: Rasputin, the Russian pseudo-monk who became the last czar's éminence grise before being assassinated in 1916.
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Signature's annual budget now hovers around $211 million, which underwrites an expanded mission: The company sponsors three separate programs that support the residency of 10 playwrights, including rising talents like Annie Baker and Katori Hall, midcareer artists like Kenneth Lonergan and Regina Taylor, and at least one éminence grise, Athol Fugard.
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The Berkeley chef Alice Waters opened Chez Panisse in 1971 as a canteen for her activist friends; now she's an éminence grise of sustainable agriculture, and her once fringe vision — in which the choice of what to eat is as much political as it is personal — is mainstream, if not yet fully realized.
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Indeed, it is a direct reaction to Chuck's having used the political clout of his éminence grise Black Jack Foley to threaten Charles's lucrative land holdings surrounding an upstate casino project and thereby force his father to keep quiet about Chuck's role in sabotaging the stock, now the subject of investigation by the upstanding attorney Bryan Connerty.
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At the time, Eisner was already an éminence grise in American comics: "The Spirit," the formally groundbreaking weekly newspaper-insert comic book he had written and drawn in the '40s, had been rediscovered by a new generation of ambitious cartoonists, and he had spent the previous few decades creating instructional comics for the Army and other clients.
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Bénédicte Vergez-Chaignon, Le docteur Ménétrel: éminence grise et confident du maréchal Pétain, Paris:Perrin, 2001, p. 160.Nicolas Beaupré, Les grandes guerres (1914-1945), Paris:Belin, 2012, pp. 827-828.
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Belbachir was one of the most prominent political figures in Spanish Morocco and was often alluded to as the “Éminence grise” of the caliph of Spanish Morocco as conveyed in 1988 by a Moroccan historian, Abdelmajid Benjelloun.Benjelloun, Abdelmajid (1988). Approches du colonialism espagnol et du movement nationaliste marocain dans l’ex-Maroc Khalifien. Rabat, Morocco: OKAD Publishing Company p. 289 Jean Wolf, a Belgian historian, further supported the term “Éminence grise” in 1994.
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It was consolidated around the jurist Gheorghe Bibescu, who had exposed Ghica's favoritism toward foreigners,Hêrjeu, p. 100; Xenopol, p. 182 and had Vornic Alexandru Vilara for its éminence grise.
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Höch grew up in Ludwigshafen, then part of the Kingdom of Bavaria. His father, Gottfried Höch, was the éminence grise in the founding of the community of Ludwigshafen and the economist show managed the estates of Stéphanie de Beauharnais.
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Barbara M. Levick, Faustina I and II: Imperial Women of the Golden Age.Oxford University Press, 2014, , page 42 According to a modern historian, Sura's role as kingmaker and éminence grise was deeply resented by some senators, especially the historian Tacitus, who acknowledged Sura's military and oratory virtues but at the same time resented his rapacity and devious ways, similar to those of Vespasian's éminence grise Licinius Mucianus.Eugen Cizek, "Tacite face à Trajan", available at , pages 127/128. Retrieved July 20, 2014 As governor of Lower Germany during Nerva's reign, Trajan received the impressive title of Germanicus for his skillful management and rule of the volatile Imperial province.
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Miller is the éminence grise and mastermind behind Descending Hunan, an uncategorizable musical entity. Miller has stated that he is most proud of his music. Descending Hunan has performed at Ticketstock, an annual Ticket Event, to the adulation and incredulity of hundreds of unprepared festival-goers.
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Gheonea, p. 50 Moreover, they resulted in the annexation of Brăila, a lucrative Wallachian port, to the Ottoman Empire. Described in some records as an éminence grise, Coadă may have played a "decisive role" in this affair, thanking the Ottomans for their support against Șerban's party.
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François Leclerc du Tremblay is the figure in black, depicted descending the staircase in this oil painting (1873) by Jean-Léon Gérôme. An éminence grise () or grey eminence is a powerful decision-maker or adviser who operates "behind the scenes", or in a non-public or unofficial capacity.
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Reginald Baliol Brett, 2nd Viscount Esher, (30 June 1852 – 22 January 1930) was an historian and Liberal politician in the United Kingdom, although his greatest influence over military and foreign affairs was as a courtier, member of public committees and behind-the-scenes "fixer", or rather éminence grise.
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L'ABC de RLC – l'Encyclopédie de Rennes-le-Château, page 180: "Personnage emblématique de l'affaire de Rennes-le-Château, éminence grise et co-auteur de livres avec l'écrivain Gérard de Sède, dessinateur industriel, ésotériste et médium sous le nomen de Chyren, directeur, journaliste et gérant de la revue Circuit, mystificateur". (Marseille: Éditions Arqa, 2009).
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As he grew older, he was considered the Party's historian. He died in Cuba on 22 October 1994. Abraham was a major éminence grise of Cuban history and is most commonly known as Fabio Grobart, Fabio being a reference to the Roman Consul and guerrilla tactician Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus called "Cunctator (the delayer)", and thus to Fabian socialism.
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III, p. 84. Bucharest: Universul, 1936 Meanwhile, a member of the National Liberal Party (PNL) and auditor of its Bucharest club,Bacalbașa (1928), p. 144 Bianu was an ally of Dimitrie Sturdza and reached the Assembly of Deputies. Without serious ambitions in this realm, he preferred to be a sort of éminence grise to the party leader.
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Later, after the Japan–Korea Annexation Treaty in 1910, Miura became a privy councilor and focused on eliminating vestiges of the clan-based factionalism from politics, gaining a reputation as an Éminence grise for fixing issues "behind-the-scenes". On his death of uremia in 1926 he was posthumously awarded the Order of the Rising Sun with Paulownia Flowers.
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"vital ardor"; the vital force hypothesized by Henri Bergson as a source of efficient causation and evolution in nature; also called "life-force" ; éminence grise: lit. "grey eminence": a publicity-shy person with little formal power but great influence over those in authority. ; en banc: court hearing of the entire group of judges instead of a subset panel. ; en bloc: as a group.
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From 1965 he was amanuensis of Council and Presidium of Council of the Polish Catholic Church in the Polish People's Republic. He was considered to be an éminence grise of the Polish Catholic Church from 1965 to 1969. He died with his family (Ewa, Irena and Jerzy Naumczyk) in the crash of an Antonov An-24 on the north slope of Polica.
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Hla Wun continued to wield influence even after Narathihapate's death in 1287. As the leader of the court, the dowager queen put Kyawswa on the throne in 1289. But she was disappointed by Kyawswa's inability to restore the fallen Pagan Empire. Chronicles say that she organized a coup against Kyawswa in 1297, and remained an éminence grise well into the 1310s.
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At the same time, his regime transitioned from being totalitarian to authoritarian with limited pluralism and became a leader in the anti-Communist movement, garnering support from the West, particularly the United States.Rubottom, R. Richard and Murphy, J. Carter (1984) Spain and the United States: Since World War II. Praeger.Payne (2000), p. 645 The dictatorship softened and Luis Carrero Blanco became Franco's éminence grise.
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He was accused of having "delusions of grandeur" and little knowledge of the realities of world politics and power. His period of greatest influence was in the 1890, lessening after the triumph of Tirpitz. He was something of a "naval Éminence grise" to the Kaiser, with whom he had a standing appointment to meet on Tuesday mornings, either in Berlin or Potsdam.By order of the Kaiser, p.
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Fink was superseded by his party fellow Michael Mayr, when Renner's coalition government finally broke up on 7 July 1920. Upon the legislative election of 1920 on 17 October, Mayr formed a minority government backed by the right-wing Greater German People's Party and Fink during the subsequent period of political radicalisation no longer held any government offices, but remained considered an éminence grise and power broker.
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In politics, he was a member of the Agrarian League and the Minister of Education in Reino Kuuskoski's cabinet. He was also closely associated with then-president Urho Kekkonen, being even described as the éminence grise of Kekkonen. His daughter Kirsti Vilkuna is the widow of the prominent Finnish industrialist Pekka Herlin. His grandsons Janne Vilkuna and Kustaa H. J. Vilkuna are historians as well.
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Edney retired in August 1992 and was appointed as an éminence grise for the Center for Naval Analyses and the National Defense University. In April 1997 Charles R. Larson selected Edney to fill the post of Distinguished Professor of Leadership at the United States Naval Academy. In this position, Edney was charged with "teaching core leadership and ethics courses and promoting moral development and leadership education" to academy students.Thompson, p. 396.
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Known to be Serbian police's éminence grise and a prominent member of the country's security apparatus (UDBA as well as its successors), inspector and security operative Višekruna's commanding presence and abrasive personality are the stuff of legends. His harsh reputation precedes him thus often acting as deterrent to potential lawbreakers — though he doesn't shy away from employing direct violence either, personally administering slaps that can "wipe your memories".
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Vestiges of the princely palace, and Arbore's place of execution, in Hârlău Bogdan was an ailing prince, incapable of fulfilling his duties toward the end of his life; alongside Totrușan, Arbore again took hold of the actual government.Vătămanu, p. 309 The throne went to Stephen IV, a minor (11-years-old at the time).Lecca, p. 148 Arbore became the ruler's tutor and, as such, the country's éminence grise.
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He presided the over European Movement from 1974 to 1978 and was member of the Jean Monnet Foundation for Europe. In 1979, he became member of the first European Parliament elected by universal suffrage. Jean Rey also remained active in Belgian politics. He became the éminence grise of the French-speaking liberals who broke away from the unitary Party for Freedom and Progress to form the Parti Réformateur et Libéral Wallon (PRLW) in 1976.
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English title: A Dog's Life Canardo isn't the main protagonist of this album, but rather a background influencer, or Éminence grise. The story features a dog working to stop a mad doctor who performs animal experiments, while investigating the murder of his girlfriend, for which everyone blames him. This is one of two albums that were officially published in English, under two different titles: Shaggy Dog Story and A Shabby Dog Story.
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Tommy Funebo (born Tommy Niiranen March 15, 1960 in Själevad) took over from Tor Paulsson as Party Organizer of the Sverigedemokraterna (Swedish Democrats Party) at the beginning of 2001. He was the éminence grise of the party until the end of 2003, when he claimed the party had "Nazi tendencies". He rejected collaboration with Belgian antisemite Bernard Mengal and instead joined the Sveriges Pensionärers Intresseparti (Senior Citizen Interest Party). He later became a Social democrat, and later a libertarian.
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He is amused by Talleyrand's role as Bonaparte's advisor and éminence grise, a role that he finds plausible. However, he is especially puzzled by references to a British general named "Wellington." In the final line of the story, the British officer is revealed to be Sir Arthur Wellesley - known in our reality as the Duke of Wellington. He attained the title by way of his victories in the Napoleonic Wars, which never took place in this universe.
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On 6 March 1964, King Paul died of cancer. When her son, King Constantine II, married Princess Anne-Marie of Denmark later that year on 18 September, Queen Frederica stepped back from the majority of her public duties in favor of her daughter-in-law. She remained a figure of controversy and was accused in the press of being the éminence grise behind the throne. She retired to the countryside where she lived an almost reclusive life.
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Portrait engraving (Bibliothèque Nationale de France) François Leclerc du Tremblay is the figure in black, depicted descending the staircase in this oil painting (1873) by Jean-Léon Gérôme. François Leclerc du Tremblay (4 November 1577 – 17 December 1638), also known as Père Joseph, was a French Capuchin friar, confidant and agent of Cardinal Richelieu. He was the original éminence grise—the French term ("grey eminence") for a powerful advisor or decision- maker who operates secretly or unofficially.
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They were often accompanied by a Lao or Thai interpreter in the back seat. The Air Commando sergeants directed the air strikes according to U.S. Air Force doctrine, using the radio call sign Butterfly. Two of the Butterfly Air Force combat controllers were master sergeant Charles Larimore Jones, soon joined by technical sergeant James J. Stanford. Another of the Butterflies was Major John J. Garrity, Jr., who in future would spend several years as the éminence grise of the American Embassy to Laos.
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Retrieved on 7 February 2011. He has also been featured in the Times Top 100 Lawyers list since its inception in 2008. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2011 Birthday Honours for services to the legal professions and the arts. Since 2011 Stephens has been listed on the SpearsIndices Reputation Management Index as an expert in reputation management, Winning the award in 2015 and being mentioned in its top category "éminence grise" in 2016.
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Tavernier was now eager to visit the East. At Ratisbon—with the help of Pere Joseph, Cardinal Richelieu's agent and éminence grise—Tavernier was able to join the retinue of a pair of French travelers, M. de Chapes and M. de St. Liebau, who had received a mission to go to the Levant. In their company he reached Constantinople early in 1631, where he spent eleven months, and then proceeded by Tokat, Erzerum, and Erivan to Safavid Persia. His farthest point in this first journey was Isfahan.
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They were often accompanied by a Lao or Thai interpreter in the back seat. The Air Commando sergeants directed the air strikes according to U. S. Air Force doctrine, using the radio call sign Butterfly. Two of the Butterfly Air Force combat controllers were Master Sergeant Charles Larimore Jones, soon joined by Technical Sergeant James J. Stanford. Another of the Butterflies was Major John J. Garrity, Jr., who in future would spend several years as the éminence grise of the American Embassy to Laos.
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Henk Hofland, the éminence grise of Dutch journalism, described her reports from Bosnia as very good: "That was reporting in the most direct way and written in an excellent manner." H.J.A. Hofland krijgt prijs uitgevers, de Volkskrant, 12 februari 1996 In 1996 she became the correspondent for Latin America, based in Mexico, working for NRC Handelsblad and the NOS. In 1999, she moved to Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). She left NRC Handelsblad in 2003, but continued to work for NOS radio and television until January 2013.
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His publications were almost exclusively devoted to this until the early 1970s, when he began to distinguish himself as a historian and theorist of the global capitalist economy on a macroscopic level. His early criticism of global capitalism and championship of "anti-systemic movements" made him an éminence grise with the anti-globalization movement within and outside of the academic community, along with Noam Chomsky and Pierre Bourdieu. His most important work, The Modern World-System, appeared in four volumes between 1974 and 2011.Williams, Gregory.
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Davis has had many media appearances, including twice on the Colbert Report. A segment was also produced on Nova. In 2001, the Washington Post termed Davis the "éminence grise of the 'bioart' movement", saying further, "Davis eschews the art versus science argument, insisting that he speaks both languages and could not possibly tear the two disciplines apart in his own mind". Davis' work has further significance in documenting and critiquing early attempts at steganographic encoding of culturally important messages and images for future generations or extraterrestrial cultures.
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With the establishment of the German Empire in 1871, Holstein became secretary of the ambassador in Paris, Harry von Arnim. Von Arnim was a patroniser of the French royalists and a fierce opponent of Chancellor Bismarck, who finally enforced Arnim's discharge and conviction for breach of secrecy. Holstein returned to Berlin, where he assumed office as legation secretary in the Auswärtiges Amt in 1876, both an essential and a suspiciously eyed associate of Bismarck, who behind his back called him a "hyena". Holstein's career as an éminence grise was promoted by Bismarck's dismissal in 1890.
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Coat of arms of Giuliano Dami displayed in Palazzo Dami, in Florence. In 1708 Gian Gastone abandoned his wife and returned to Florence with Giuliano, which in the meantime had become his real éminence grise,Acton 1980, p. 245. and in 1723 he succeeded to his father Cosimo III (Grand Prince Ferdinando, Gian Gastone's older brother, had died prematurely in 1713). The Tuscany Gian Gastone inherited was in a pitiful state: the army numbered less than 3,000, the royal coffer was empty and Florence was full of beggars.
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Konstantin Petrovich Pobedonostsev (; 21 May 1827 – 23 March 1907) was a Russian jurist, statesman, and adviser to three Tsars. He was the chief spokesman for reactionary positions. He was the "éminence grise" of imperial politics during the reign of Alexander III of Russia, holding the position of the Ober-Procurator of the Most Holy Synod, the non-clerical official who supervised the Russian Orthodox Church. His writings on politics, law, art, and culture emphasized the positive element of the spiritual and secular unification of Russia with the acceptance of Christianity.
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There, as the confidant of the queen and the papal envoy, he opposed the Gallicanism advanced by the parlement. He succeeded in convincing the princes that the stance harbored schismatic tendencies and they abandoned their initial support. In 1612 he established those personal relations with Richelieu that established his reputation—and the phrase—éminence grise, though historical research has not been able to document his supposed influence on the latter. The description drew on the grey friar's cloak that Père Joseph wore and the title "eminence" conferred on Richelieu as a cardinal.
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After the first round on 16 June, Yeltsin appointed a highly popular candidate Alexander Lebed, who finished in third place in the first round, Secretary of the Security Council of Russia, sacked at the latter's behest defence minister Pavel Grachev, and on 20 June sacked a number of his siloviki, one of them being his chief of presidential security Alexander Korzhakov, viewed by many as Yeltsin's éminence grise. In the run-off on 3 July, with a turnout of 68.9%, Yeltsin won 53.8% of the vote and Zyuganov 40.7%, with the rest (5.9%) voting "against all".
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Because of his effective management beyond the spotlight of politics, he was nicknamed Die Graue Effizienz (The Grey Efficiency) --a pun on Graue Eminenz, the German for éminence grise. Under Schröder, Steinmeier was responsible for co-ordinating Germany's intelligence services.Schrödermeier: A foreign minister under pressure to account for the past The Economist, January 19, 2006. In 2003, he supported Schröder in his controversial decision to forge a coalition with Russia and France against the U.S.-led war against Iraq.Judy Dempsey (May 17, 2007), Letter From Europe: In German town, a foreign minister paves way for future International Herald Tribune.
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In implementing the form of government of 1919, Ståhlberg piloted an independent Finland towards acting in world politics; in presidential-led foreign and security policy, he relied on international law and diplomacy. It was only after the opening of private archives of President J. K. Paasikivi that it was realized that Ståhlberg had a very significant political role as a “éminence grise” until his death. He was asked for advice and opinions, which were also followed. Paasikivi highly valued Ståhlberg, and even described his predecessor in exaggerated words: “Ståhlberg was a man who never made mistakes”.
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Beaumont, 1933 Hugh "Binkie" Beaumont (27 March 190822 March 1973) was a British theatre manager and producer, sometimes referred to as the "éminence grise" of the West End theatre. Though he shunned the spotlight so that his name was not known widely among the general public, he was one of the most successful and influential manager-producers in the West End during the middle of the 20th century. Beaumont was brought up in Cardiff, where he joined the staff of a local theatre at the age of fifteen. From there he built a career in theatrical management.
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Morley, p. 189 John Gielgud Tennent died in 1941, leaving Beaumont in sole control, and for the next twenty years he was one of the most powerful men in British theatre. He maintained a low profile, shunning the limelight partly from natural reticence (saying, "I haven't the temperament to be a Cochran or a Diaghilev") and partly from his belief that he could operate more effectively behind the scenes."Vivienne Byerley – Obituary", The Times, 13 April 1995 The first full-length biography of Beaumont, published in 1989, is subtitled "éminence grise of the West End theatre, 1933–1973".
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King and his senior admirals had effectively excluded Knox from major war decisions by only showing him routine communications from the fleet and neglecting to present the important messages, which they handled themselves. Alerted to this practice, Gingrich advised Forrestal to go to the Navy Department communication room and examine all incoming telegrams for himself. Armed with this information, Forrestal was able to exert more influence over Navy Department operations than his predecessor, at King's expense. King eventually came to suspect that Gingrich was the éminence grise behind many of the actions taken in Forrestal's name.
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Despite his chaotic term of office, Scullin remained a leading figure in the Labor movement throughout his lifetime, and served as an éminence grise in various capacities for the party until his retirement in 1949. The son of working-class Irish-immigrants, Scullin spent much of his early life as a laborer and grocer in Ballarat. An autodidact and passionate debater, Scullin would join the Australian Labor Party in 1903, beginning a career spanning five decades. He was a political organizer and newspaper editor for the party, and was elected to the House of Representatives first in 1910 and then again in 1922 until 1949.
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From the 1933 Sergeants' Revolt onwards, Fulgencio Batista acted as an éminence grise, making and undoing governments in Cuba. After eight years of government under the presidencies of Ramón Grau (1944–1948) and Carlos Prío Socarrás (1948–1952), Batista was one of the candidates in the 1952 election. However, as some of the polling put him in a distant third place, on March 10, 1952, just four months before the presidential election, Batista struck, claiming several unjustifiable reasons, using his position within the Army and being supported by some political sectors of the country. The coup itself was bloodless, but it attracted the attention and concern of most of the population.
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Vasily Bledny's grand nephew, Prince Vasily Vasilievich "Nemoy" ("the Mute") was Grand Prince Vasily III's taciturn aide-de-camp who accompanied him on every military campaign and became an éminence grise of Muscovite politics. In 1517, he defeated forces of Poland and Lithuania under Konstantin Ostrogski as part of the 4th Muscovite-Lithuanian War. Six years later, Vasily Nemoy led a Russian expedition along the Volga against Kazan. Upon the death of Vasily III's widow, Elena Glinskaya, he challenged the authority of Prince Ivan Belsky, procured his incarceration, married Anastasia of Kazan (Ivan III's granddaughter), and proclaimed himself regent for Vasily III's heir, the young Ivan IV, in 1538.
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Globke became a powerful éminence grise of the West German government, and was widely regarded as one of most influential public officials in the government of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. Globke had a major role in shaping the course and structure of the state and West Germany's alignment with the United States. He was also instrumental in West Germany's anti-communist policies at the domestic and international level and in the western intelligence community, and was the German government's main liaison with NATO and other western intelligence services, especially the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). During his lifetime, his role in the Nazi state was only partially known.
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From the 1933 Sergeants' Revolt onwards, Fulgencio Batista acted as an éminence grise, making and undoing governments in Cuba. After eight years of government under the presidencies of Ramón Grau (1944–1948) and Carlos Prío Socarrás (1948–1952), Batista was one of the candidates in the 1952 election. However, as some of the polling put him in a distant third place, on March 10, 1952, just four months before the presidential election, Batista struck, claiming several unjustifiable reasons, using his position within the Army and being supported by some political sectors of the country. The coup itself was bloodless, but it attracted the attention and concern of most of the population.
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Al Jazeera described Omar Suleiman as the unelected Vice President of Egypt, éminence grise to President Hosni Mubarak, and point man for Egypt's secret relations with Israel. Jane Mayer of The New Yorker noted that Suleiman remained controversial because he "has headed the feared Egyptian general intelligence service" and also described his role in allowing controversial torture methods under US rendition programs which may have generated bad intelligence. In turn, Suleiman blamed journalists for the current uprising in Egypt. "I actually blame certain friendly nations who have television channels, they're not friendly at all, who have intensified the youth against the nation and the state," Suleiman said in a TV address.
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Birch Wilson as he appeared around the time of American entry into World War I in 1917. L. Birch Wilson Jr. (1883–1974) was an American political activist, newspaper editor, and civic employee. Wilson is best remembered as a member of the governing National Executive Committee of the Socialist Party of America during the 1920s and the éminence grise behind the Socialist mayoral administration of J. Henry Stump in the city of Reading, Pennsylvania as well as the editor of the Reading weekly newspaper, The Labor Advocate. His wife, Lillith M. Wilson (1887–1937), was a three term member of the Pennsylvania General Assembly during the decade of the 1930s.
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A related term is éminence grise (French: "gray eminence"), a powerful advisor or decision-maker who operates secretly or otherwise unofficially. This phrase originally referred to Cardinal de Richelieu's right-hand man, François Leclerc du Tremblay (also known as the Père Joseph), a Capuchin friar who wore grey robes. Because the Cardinal de Richelieu, the power behind the throne of King Louis XIII of France, as a Catholic cardinal was styled Son Eminence ("His Eminence"), his alter ego Père Joseph was called l'éminence grise (which is also the English title of his biography by Aldous Huxley). Martin Bormann was referred to as the Brown Eminence, brown referring to the brown uniform of the Nazi Party.
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The éminence grise behind the establishment of the County wine industry is Geoff Heinricks, who was the first to propose that Prince Edward County could one day be a major player in the Canadian wine industry. He thoroughly investigated the soils and microclimates of the County and concluded that the cool climate coupled with the all-pervading limestone base would be an ideal situation for the grapes of Burgundy (i.e. Pinot noir and Chardonnay). He also provided some other strong recommendations including the various relatives and clones of Pinot noir (Pinot gris, Pinot blanc, and Pinot Meunier), St. Laurent, Melon de Bourgogne, Gamay, and Riesling, and has given serious consideration to several others.
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Maurice Castle (Nicol Williamson) is a mid-level bureaucrat in MI6 whose life seems unremarkable, apart from the fact that he has an African wife, Sarah (Iman), and son, Sam (Gary Forbes). The company regime, represented by Dr. Percival (Robert Morley), an expert in assassinations and biological toxins, and éminence grise Sir John Hargreaves (Richard Vernon), advise newly appointed security chief Daintry (Richard Attenborough) that they believe they have a leak in Castle's department. The duo determine the mole must be quietly killed, rather than be allowed publicity in a trial or a flight to Moscow. They quickly decide the most likely candidate for the traitor is Arthur Davis (Derek Jacobi), Castle’s redbrick-educated playboy office partner.
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A Soviet Railway train passes through the station of Czaszyn, Poland, at night. The first characters of the novel are introduced: a young, unnamed French student, and Evgeni Golozov, a Ukrainian polyglot born in 1918 who is a member of the Central Committee and the de facto personal secretary to Vasili Aleksandrovič Čevčenko. Čevčenko, an old paralyzed man who lies in bed in the next car reading the Pravda, is the Éminence Grise behind the whole novel: born in 1895, he has fought in the Revolution of 1917, has met Lenin and Stalin and has been an executive of the Cheka and the GPU. The train finally reaches its destination in Królówka, Poland.
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In the 1950s, Georgescu became an activist of the PCR Central Committee's Agitprop section, an office which reportedly led literary circles to perceive him as the éminence grise of chief ideologues Leonte Răutu and Iosif Chişinevschi. Valeriu Râpeanu, "Cea dintâi zi la Capşa", in Magazin Istoric, June 2001 Valeriu Râpeanu, "Ce roman, viaţa lui Zaharia Stancu", in Magazin Istoric, September 1998 After a restructuring of the education system, he also advanced hierarchically to the position of lecturer at the University of Bucharest Faculty of Letters. A member of the newly created Writers' Union of Romania, Georgescu was first elected to the head bureau of its Prose Section in October 1952.Selejan, p.
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He played a key role in Sarkozy's victory during the 2007 presidential election. He suggested renegotiating the Évian Accords, which gives special visas to Algerians when they visit France, but Sarkozy turned down the idea.La face cachée de Patrick Buisson, éminence grise de Sarkozy... et Mélenchon, Le Figaro, March 17, 2015 He has been described by Le Monde as "one of the Fifth Republic's most influential advisors." Buisson founded Publifact, a polling firm, in Lyon in 1982.Gérald Andrieu, Patrick Buisson, un gourou près de ses sous, Marianne, June 28, 2013 He owns 58%.Lilian Alemagna, Le jackpot derrière les Buisson, Libération, November 25, 2009 In 2008, the firm received 1,082,400 Euros from the Élysée for various polls and reports.
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In 1972, with Andreotti's first term as Prime Minister began a period when he was often seen as the éminence grise of governments even when not actually premier. He remained in office in two consecutive centre-right cabinets in 1972 and in 1973. His first cabinet failed in obtaining the confidence vote and he was forced to resign after only 9 days; this government has been the one with the shortest period of fullness of powers in the history of the Italian Republic. Snap elections were called for May 1972 and the Christian Democracy, led by Andreotti's ally Arnaldo Forlani, remained stable with around 38% of the votes, as it happened to the Communist Party which obtained the same 27% of 1968.
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On 26 May 2009 Lukić became president of Red Star Belgrade,Lukić predsednik FK Crvena zvezda;B92, 26 May 2009 replacing previous club president Dan Tana, whilst the club were experiencing major financial difficulties with its account blocked due to reported debt of €23 million.Tri godine Lukića u Crvenoj zvezdi;B92, 16 December 2011 Along with Lukić, another former Red Star player came back to the club in administrative role – Ivan Adžić became the club's new sporting director. From the very beginning Lukić's tenure at the club was accompanied with rumours that Red Star's éminence grise Goran Vesić (also Democratic Party's prominent member and longtime political operative) is the real decision maker within the club. Lukić's first official order of business was hiring new head coach Vladimir "Pižon" Petrović in early June 2009.
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Andreotti was accused of participation in a variety of plots. He was alleged to be the éminence grise behind the Propaganda Due Masonic Lodge, a secret association of politicians, civil servants, industrialists, military leaders, heads of the secret service, and prominent journalists conspiring to prevent the Italian Communist Party taking office. This theory posited control of elements ranging from the neo-fascist Valerio Fioravanti to Rome gangsters the Banda della Magliana and to Operation Gladio, a clandestine NATO organisation that was intended to fight a Soviet conquest of Europe through an armed resistance movement. Andreotti was also accused of having a hand in the death of Aldo Moro and terrorist massacres in a strategy of tension aimed at precipitating a coup, as well as banking scandals and various high-profile assassinations.
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Critics have suggested that a "technocratic divide" exists between a governing body controlled to varying extents by technocrats, and members of the general public. Said another way, technocratic divides are "efficacy gaps that persist between governing bodies employing technocratic principles and members of the general public aiming to contribute to government decision making". The central challenge raised by these divides is that technocrats provide privilege and aristocracy to the opinions and viewpoints of technical experts, while marginalizing the opinions and viewpoints of the general public. As major multinational technology corporations (e.g., FAANG) swell market caps and customer counts, critiques of technocratic government in the 21st-century see its manifestation in American politics not as an "authoritarian nightmare of oppression and violence" but rather as an éminence grise: a democratic cabal directed by Mark Zuckerberg and the entire cohort of "Big Tech" executives.
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Among the accolades Rand received were those of László Moholy-Nagy: The reputation Rand so rapidly amassed in his prodigious twenties never dissipated; rather, it only managed to increase through the years as his influential works and writings firmly established him as the éminence grise of his profession. Although Rand was most famous for the corporate logos he created in the 1950s and 1960s, his early work in page design was the initial source of his reputation. In 1936, Rand was given the job of setting the page layout for an Apparel Arts (now GQ) magazine anniversary issue. "His remarkable talent for transforming mundane photographs into dynamic compositions, which ... gave editorial weight to the page" earned Rand a full-time job, as well as an offer to take over as art director for the Esquire-Coronet magazines.
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One observer (Trevor Stanley) argues that "Saudi Arabia is commonly characterized as aggressively exporting Wahhabism, it has in fact imported pan-Islamic Salafism", which influenced native Saudi religious/political beliefs. Muslim Brotherhood members fleeing persecution of Arab nationalist regimes in Egypt and Syria were given refuge in Saudi and sometimes ended up teaching in Saudi schools and universities. Muhammad Qutb, the brother of the highly influential Sayyid Qutb, came to Saudi Arabia after being released from prison. There he taught as a professor of Islamic Studies and edited and published the books of his older brotherKepel, Jihad, 2002: p.51 who had been executed by the Egyptian government.Kepel, War for Muslim Minds, (2004) p.174-5 Hassan al-Turabi who later became the "éminence grise" in the government of Sudanese president Jaafar Nimeiri spent several years in exile in Saudi Arabia. "Blind Shiekh" Omar Abdel-Rahman lived in Saudi Arabia from 1977 to 1980 teaching at a girls' college in Riyadh.
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