Word: tudor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spend the millions he earned when the company went public 14 months ago. He took a few days off last year to go backpacking in Yosemite National Park. Except for some Japanese woodprints and a Maxfield Parrish painting, his unpretentious prints and a Maxfield Parrish painting, his unpretentious Tudor-style home in Los Altos Hills is largely bare because he has not decided how to furnish it. As an executive, Jobs has sometimes been petulant and harsh on subordinates. Admits he: "I've got to learn to keep my feelings private...
This little old lady of Dorset, who was an authority on Tudor church music, had an imagination that unpredictably "caught fire from facts," as she said of T.H. White in her biography of the author of The Once and Future King. Everything took on an enchanted significance for her-dragonflies, mushrooms, four-leaf clovers, bits of broken pottery. Like White, she could not walk out her back door without seeing druids and pucks and Camelot. The only child of a schoolmaster-"solitary and agnostic as a little cat"-she was a wild romantic beneath the maiden-aunt exterior that...
...Tudor C. Ingersoll, head of the residents' negotiating committee, said the agreement was "terrrific. The neighbors are all breathing a sigh of relief." Ingersoll said...
...Tudor G. Ingersoll, local residents' chief negotiator with Harvard, said the "minimum guarantee" revision is unacceptable to neighbors who want to see both buildings preserved at their current locations...
British music has long been treated like a poor relation in the world's concert halls-the sick man of Europe. German, Italian, French and Russian compositions make up the bulk of the standard repertory. But British music-with a rich tradition stretching from Tudor church composers like William Byrd to innovative moderns like Peter Maxwell Davies-is patronized as a national school, a sort of cultural Toby-jug collection, of interest chiefly to natives and diehard Anglophiles elsewhere...