Word: tudors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sense, the battle has been raging ever since the breakup of medieval Christendom. Before Tudor times, Englishmen believed in the Catholic version of the landmass theory. They even tried to climb onto the Continent by attempting to conquer and rule France in the Hundred Years' War. But ever since Christendom split into Protestant and Catholic wings, Britons have been opposed to European unification. Marlborough, Pitt and Wellington have all fought to keep a balance of power on the European continent, and the small trading nations-The Netherlands, the Scandinavian countries-have usually welcomed British intercession. When madmen like...
Agreeable Creatures. Sir Thomas lives in a baronial Manhattan duplex with Tudor interiors, leaves it occasionally for walks in nearby Central Park. On warm days he sometimes has a taxi follow him with his overcoat. He smokes continuously, preferring light Havana cigars. He refers to tea as "poison" and says of his preference: "I have to drink a certain amount of Scotch, very much against my will." When his chronic gout once got the better of him in Philadelphia, he had him self pushed on the stage in a wheelchair and conducted the performance while sitting. At one New York...
...Mexican public. The Mexican public promptly tossed it back to Choreographer Massine amid loud critical catcalls. The Manhattan critics did the same. Don Domingo proved chiefly that the Ballet Russe's Massine is rapidly losing ground to the Ballet Theatre's deft dancemaker, British-born Antony Tudor, in a Fifth Avenue shop window...
Professor Merriman, who returned to his habitual haunts this summer as he taught the first half of History 1, has given an annual lecture on Reformation music for many years. He currently teaches a course in Tudor and Stuart England...
...designer was a plain-monickered Manhattan interior decorator named Dan Cooper. Affable, barrel-chested Designer Cooper spent years buying and selling Tudor chairs and Louis XIV sofas. Then he decided that what the restless U.S. needed, to beat the high cost of moving vans, was capsule furniture. His credo: "What the heck do we need in the way of furniture? We need a place to sit, to sleep, to put our personal possessions into or on top of, to eat, to write and play games." Trade-named Pakto, the Cooper capsules are manufactured by North Carolina's Drexel Furniture...