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• And when it comes to playing music, the kids are raring to prove that they can be as serious as the doyens of classical music.
• On the front page of the feuilleton section, historian Götz Aly answers Cambridge economic historian Adam Tooze and Hans-Ulrich Wehler, doyen of modern social history in Germany.
• In The Thorn Birds, Father Ralph is in unwilling thrall to rich Mary Carson, the doyenne of the region, on whom his hopes for a big donation to the Catholic church reside. Father Ralph and Humbert Humbert « Tales from the Reading Room
• The project's director is a doyenne of progressive-education pedagogy in America.
• The doyenne of method acting was quoted as saying, ‘I've worked with a lot of people, but you've got real potential.’
• At 59, he is the doyen of UK experts on healthcare law and ethics.
• The respected man was ‘the doyen of football commentators’.
• But the geological doyens were skeptical of the ideas of provincial field men.
• The doyenne of New Zealand letters, and a woman especially respected for her success in combining sound historical scholarship with writing for children, turned eighty-five.
• Helen Thomas, Dean (or "doyenne") of the press corps, for the first time in several decades, was relegated to the third row and was not allowed to ask Bush a question (she's known to ask tough questions and would not play ball in the charade) 4. The Blog from Another Dimension