We moved on to a party at I. M. Pei's Sutton Place house; then, for the rites of passage, to John Chancellor's; finishing by inspecting the scene at Woody Allen's mighty party".
The remarks by Mr. Tsipras' critics come in a fierce campaign ahead of June 17 elections in which the two once-mighty parties are desperately struggling to recapture angry voters who abandoned them in the last elections.
But it is unmistakable that the once-mighty party of the Scottish working class, the engine of Labour and the foundation of almost every Labour government at Westminster, is in a terrible place.
Don Newcombe turns 90 next week, but the Dodgers are out of town, so they threw him a mighty festive party on the field on Wednesday.
In 2016, Kenney announced that he would be running for the leadership of Alberta's Progressive Conservative's the once mighty ruling party in Alberta that was laid low to third place in the 2015 election on a platform to "Unite the Right".
"Such is the decline of the once-mighty Conservative party in Scotland that it only laid out 240 seats for members attending its annual conference – and still struggled to fill them".
The leader of Greece's once-mighty Socialist party, Pasok, Evangelos Venizelos, who visited the French President in what appeared to be a hastily arranged trip on Tuesday, did not attack the Greek leftist leader directly but sought to cast him as a radical, noting in comments to reporters that the leftist would be meeting with officials "from the area of the radical Communist left".
In Greece, the once-mighty Socialist party Pasok was thrashed into third place by an anti-bailout coalition of the left, while in Italy the success of a protest movement called Five Star forced left and right into an unlikely coalition.
As the rest of Europe looked to its future via the ideas of Kant, Rousseau and Voltaire, once mighty Venice was partying its way towards becoming merely the most beautiful city on earth.
It was around this time five years ago, as the Los Angeles Kings celebrated their 40th birthday by cleaving to tradition (they missed the playoffs), that the upstart Anaheim Ducks, nee Mighty Ducks, were partying with the Stanley Cup 30 miles south down the 5 freeway.
