Mr. Savell, 46, has a day job as a lawyer at the eminent Manhattan firm Chadbourne & Parke, but late at night, after he has tucked in his two sons, ages 2 and 3, he writes original songs and the occasional set of new lyrics to old standard tunes.
It must be almost equally discouraging for scientists to see the graph that plots the age at which eminent male scientists make their big discoveries.
Christopher Plummer and Brian Dennehy will be spreading starlight at this eminent festival, appearing separately after their joint efforts last year in "Inherit the Wind" on Broadway.
A letter will be sent to the home secretary, Amber Rudd, next week from solicitors at two eminent law firms calling on her to convene a public inquiry into historical adoption practices in the UK.
About two dozen other local and state governments, including Newark, Seattle and a handful of cities in California, are looking at the eminent domain strategy, according to a count by Robert Hockett, a Cornell University law professor and one of the plan's chief proponents.
Nabokov would have been well advised to use it for it perfectly fits the general tone of his writing, both in Lolita and Ada, which is never vulgar, never makes use of crude words, and constantly remains at an eminent poetic or poerotic level.
