Blacklisting is the action of a group or authority, compiling a blacklist (or black list) of people, countries or other entities to be avoided or distrusted as being deemed unacceptable to those making the list.   If someone is on a blacklist, they are seen by a government or other organization as being one of a number of people who cannot be trusted or who is considered to have done something wrong. As a verb, blacklist can mean to put an individual or entity on such a list.  The English dramatist Philip Massinger used the phrase "black list" in his 1639 tragedy The Unnatural Combat.  After the restoration of the English monarchy brought Charles II of England to the throne in 1660, a list of regicides named those to be punished for the execution of his father.  The state papers of Charles II say "If any innocent soul be found in this black list, let him not be offended at me, but consider whether some mistaken principle or interest may not have misled him to vote".  In a 1676 history of the events leading up to the Restoration, James Heath (a supporter of Charles II) alleged that Parliament had passed an Act requiring the sale of estates, "And into this black list the Earl of Derby was now put, and other unfortunate Royalists".  Edward Gibbon wrote in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776) of Andronicus that "His memory was stored with a black list of the enemies and rivals, who had traduced his merit, opposed his greatness, or insulted his misfortunes".  In 1907, the Transvaal Medical Union in South Africa blacklisted patients if they could not pay cash in advance.  There was a physical list kept by the community of physicians.  In computing, a blacklist is an access control system that denies entry to a specific list (or a defined range) of users, programs, or network addresses.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacklisting

Greylisting can refer to:

Greylisting (email), a method of defending e-mail users against spam

Greylisting (employment), a form of blacklisting for lesser offenses

Hollywood graylist, people who were on the Hollywood blacklist operated by the major studios, but could find work at minor film studios on Poverty Row.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greylisting 

Green Goddess Dressing was created at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, an opulent 19th century hotel noted for its celebrity chefs.  Chef Philip Roemer debuted the dressing in 1923 to honor actor George Arliss, who stayed at the hotel while performing in William Archer’s hit play “The Green Goddess.”  It is believed to have been inspired by a dressing that hailed from the kitchens serving Louis XIII, served then not with salads but with eel.  Katie Workman  https://www.gazettenet.com/green-goddess-11351998#:~:text=Chef%20Philip%20Roemer%20debuted%20the,with%20salads%20but%20with%20eel. 

The Green Goddess - Orson Welles - William Archer - Campbell Playhouse  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-htw5mzj714  57:30   

“When you work with words, words are your work.”  Luther Heggs in the movie The Ghost and Mr. Chicken. 

“Better safe than sorry”  It's better to take precautionary measures to prevent something bad from happening.  The earliest known use of this proverb is by the Irish novelist Samuel Lover (1797-1868) who used it in his book Rory O'More (1837).   Another form of the expression is 'better be sensible than sorry'.  https://www.bookbrowse.com/expressions/detail/index.cfm/expression_number/150/better-safe-than-sorry  Thank you, Muse reader!  

Pinocchio is an Italian fictional character and the protagonist of the children's novel The Adventures of Pinocchio (1883) by Italian writer Carlo Collodi of Florence, Tuscany.  Pinocchio was carved by a woodcarver named Geppetto in a Tuscan village.  He was created as a wooden puppet but he dreams of becoming a real boy.  He is known for his long nose, which (on only one occasion in the novel, but more frequently in most adaptations) grows when he lies.  Pinocchio is a cultural icon and one of the most reimagined characters in children's literature.  Collodi often used the Italian Tuscan dialect in his book.  The name Pinocchio is a combination of the Italian words pino (pine), and occhio (eye); Pino is also an abbreviation of Giuseppino, the diminutive for Giuseppe (the Italian form of Joseph); one of the men who greatly influenced Collodi in his youth was Giuseppe Aiazzi, a prominent Italian manuscript specialist who supervised Collodi at the Libreria Piatti bookshop in Florence.  Geppetto, the name of Pinocchio's creator and “father,” is the diminutive for Geppo, the Tuscan pronunciation of ceppo, meaning a log, stump, block, stock or stub.  Pinocchio is a wooden marionette (a puppet that is manipulated with wires) and not a hand puppet (directly controlled from inside by the puppeteer's hand).  However, the piece of firewood from which he is derived is animated, and so Pinocchio moves independently.  He often gets carried away by bad company and is prone to lying.  His nose becomes longer when lying to others.  Because of these characteristics, he often finds himself in trouble.  Pinocchio transforms the novel:  he promises The Fairy with Turquoise Hair to become a real boy, flees with Candlewick to the Land of Toys, becomes a donkey, joins a circus, and becomes a puppet again.  In the last chapter, out of the mouth of The Terrible Dogfish with Geppetto, Pinocchio finally stops being a puppet and becomes a real boy (thanks to the intervention of the Fairy in a dream).  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinocchio 

Henning Georg Mankell (1948–2015) was a Swedish crime writer, children's author, and dramatist, best known for a series of mystery novels starring his most noted creation, Inspector Kurt Wallander.  He also wrote a number of plays and screenplays for television.  He was a left-wing social critic and activist.  In his books and plays he constantly highlighted social inequality issues and injustices in Sweden and abroad.  In 2010, Mankell was on board one of the ships in the Gaza Freedom Flotilla that was boarded by Israeli commandos.  He was below deck on the MV Mavi Marmara when nine civilians were killed in international waters.  Mankell shared his time between Sweden and countries in Africa, mostly Mozambique where he started a theatre.  He made considerable donations to charity organizations, mostly connected to Africa.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henning_Mankell 

Nicholas Evans, the British author of the bestselling novel “The Horse Whisperer,” has died at 72 on August 9, 2022.  Published in 1995, “The Horse Whisperer” was Evans’ debut novel and sold more than 15 million copies worldwide.  The story of a trainer hired to help an injured teenager and her horse back to health was adapted into a Hollywood movie starring Robert Redford as the title character and Scarlett Johansson playing young rider Grace MacLean in her breakout role.  https://www.pennlive.com/nation-world/2022/08/nicholas-evans-author-of-the-horse-whisperer-dies-after-heart-attack.html 

http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com  Issue 2553  August 17, 2022