Word: tudors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...repertory, e.g., Carmen, Tannhäuser, Traviata, La Gioconda, Bing aimed to get the Met variety considerably higher on its toes. He handed the responsibility to Lucia Chase's Ballet Theatre; Lucia, in turn, delegated the job to her principal choreographer, greying, London-born Antony (Pillar of Fire) Tudor...
...front room of a sprawling, neo-Tudor house in the English village of Burgess Hill one night last week, a husky young man & woman from the Soviet zone of Germany, a coffee-skinned youth from India, a trim girl from Finland and a swarthy boy from France were hard at work studying the Bible. In the chapel at the rear of the house, a music class was in progress; a Berliner was at the piano, an English girl played the viola; a boy from Silesia whittled away at the violin. In a small side room a pink-cheeked Yugoslav...
John, who has no children, lives like a lord of the manor in a rambling Tudor stone mansion near Valhalla, N.Y., 22 miles north of Manhattan. He sometimes cruises the paths of his 365-rolling, wooded acres in a fringe-topped surrey drawn by one of his blooded road horses. He used to play golf on his private nine-hole course with his wife, Polly, but since her death last year has given up the game. Now he keeps fit raking leaves, laying stone walks to his favorite retreat, a cozy cabin overlooking a pond. His constant helpers in these...
...Etonian who won a first class in modern history at Oxford, Sir Gladwyn has a Tudor manor house (Bramfield Hall) in Suffolk, built about 1550 and, as he says, "modernized in 1790." His wife Cynthia is a daughter of the late Sir Saxton Noble. His son Miles is now at Oxford. His daughters, Vanessa (18) and Stella (15), bear the names of the 18th Century ladyloves of Jonathan Swift...
While his Scots friends are deviling the English on the border, Pierre lands in Cornwall and tries to dethrone Tudor King Henry VII. With Pierre comes his lovely bride, Catherine Gordon, a granddaughter of James I of Scotland. But, in the crucial battle, Pierre falters when he sees that the stolid English really prefer Tudor stability to York dash...