Word: spartanic
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Cecil Sharp House in London's leafy Regent's Park is nobody's idea of a fashionable venue. The Spartan headquarters of the English Folk Dance and Song Society is home to such curiosities as tabor-drum workshops and Morris-dancing classes...
Cecil Sharp house in London's leafy Regent's Park is nobody's idea of a fashionable venue. The spartan headquarters of the English Folk Dance and Song Society is home to such curiosities as tabor-drum workshops and Morris-dancing classes. Not a place, then, where one would expect to encounter Anna Wintour, the editor of American Vogue, especially not at the height of London Fashion Week. Yet Wintour, along with New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art's top brass, had an assignation there with the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain. So entertaining was the performance that...
...hour cashier job at a Family Dollar store; about $30 of her $200-a-week paycheck goes to child care for her son Hayden, 8 months old. She still lives in an apartment subsidized and furnished by Our Lady's Inn. Pointing to her spartan surroundings, she notes, "All the furniture in this apartment is theirs. All of it: the TV, the bed, the couch, the crib, the coffee table, dishes--everything I need...
...years past, Lee Kuan Yew's office was famous among visitors for its arctic air conditioning and Spartan furnishing. A few Chinese scrolls apart, there was little decoration and sometimes barely a sheet of paper to be seen. Singapore's founding father first moved into the office on the second floor of the former British governor-general's residence in 1971, having already served six years as Prime Minister. He retired in 1990 to become Senior Minister and later Minister Mentor, but still works out of the same rooms...
...money to contaminate them. Repeatedly, Google chose quality of the website over potential profit; hence the mantra in the company’s Code of Conduct: “Don’t be evil.”While other websites bombard users with flashy advertisements, Google insists on Spartan simplicity. Its homepage is uncluttered, and the stress-free white background—coupled with the logo’s primary colors—emits a calm vibe. To uphold a user-friendly, inviting environment, Google sacrificed millions of dollars in profit. Googlers have always been the founders?...