Word: tudor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is just one main road that interrupts the serenity of the Princeton campus. A slow jog along it will take you by the few businesses that service the students--an antiseptic Woolworth's, a cheerfully Tudor P.J.'s Pancake House, one lone movie theater advertising "Fort Apache, The Bronx." Before you know it you are out of the town and into the suburban area where graceful turn-of-the-century mansions are occasionally jurtaposed with modernistic concrete boxes, and where large expanses of land and water are dotted with honking brown geese...
...baths, a circular drive, and 22-ft. gourmet kitchen. Asking price: $750,000. Secretary of State Alexander Haig for now is renting at the Colonnade, an elegant apartment building ten minutes from the State Department. Mrs. Haig thought she had found the right house, a five-bedroom Tudor-and even dragged the general away from some Inaugural festivities to look at it-but Haig decided that it was "not grand enough...
...program is designed for about 14 students but more may be accepted. Courses to be offered in London for the Yale students include "Art, Politics and Literature in the Tudor Age," "London in History and Literature," "Art, Politics and Literature in the Stuart Age," "Drama and Society in England" and "British Culture and Society...
...orchestra, conducted the afternoon I attended by freshman wunderkind Stuart Malina, provided sturdy if uninspired accompaniment. Harriet D. Silbaugh's Tudor scenery has ginger-bread-house charm. And all in all, two misguided performances notwithstanding, the Harvard Gilbert and Sullivan Players give a classy operetta a yeomanly production...
A.B.T. also encouraged innovation. In the '40s Jerome Robbins capered through Fancy Free, De Mille created Three Virgins and Fall River Legend, and Antony Tudor made dance dramas like Pillar of Fire. More recently A.B.T. has performed works by Eliot Feld and Glen Tetley and reaped a huge hit in Twyla Tharp's Push Comes to Shove. Chase has nurtured Americans like Cynthia Gregory and welcomed the Soviet comets, Nureyev, Makarova, Baryshnikov. The newest arrival, Alexander Godunov, hurled himself through the rousing pas de deux from Le Corsaire as a highlight of the gala...