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His mother was cold and controlling; his father and sister both committed suicide (in 1907 and 1929, respectively); his beloved brother died of alcoholism in 1926, just as Hiss was beginning his superbly calculated rise out of the family muck to suave and well-tailored eminence in Roosevelt's State Department.
Back in town, the Ming Dynasty Drum Tower (Gulou) has been restored to its eminence on a hill in the very center of Nanjing.
Blurbs from Brzenzinski (effusive) and Kissinger (guarded) reinforce the air of eminence.
He would like to be considered a wit, perhaps the Samuel Johnson of American letters, but he will never achieve such eminence so long as he churns out gags, assembly-line fashion.
When I was young at the bar I heard with delight an old lawyer, who could have played Dickens's Mr. Tulkinghorn, speak grandly of the court of nisi prius (pronouncing it NICEY PRY-US), an utterly obsolete Latinism for the simple trial court . Just as any speaker may, for the sake of euphony (or vanity) flourish an occasional eminence grise or mirabile dictu , may not a lawyer plume himself now and then with an ab initio or even a mutatis mutandis , not to “unite the priesthood’ but to savor his own sonority, as a bird sings also for itself?