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Word: tudors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hundred metronomes went ticktack, ticktack during the 15-minute performance of Györgi Ligeti's composition, Poème Symphonique. A toy gun popped, a yellow umbrella flipped open, while Soloist David Tudor banged directly on the piano strings with a hammer, executing John Cage's Concert for Piano and Orchestra. The movie collage Breathdeath offered a drawn foot coming out of Richard Nixon's mouth. In French Playwright Eugene lonesco's one-acter, Bedlam Galore, for Two or More, "She" and "He" quarreled, and quarreled some more, while a civil war went on outside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Avant-Garde: Did You Ever, Ever, Ever | 3/19/1965 | See Source »

...John Tudor Memorial Cup, for the most valuable player of the past season, was awarded to Captain John Daly, also a defenseman. Right-wing Kenny Burnes won the Donald Angier Hockey Trophy as the most improved skater...

Author: By Joel Havemann, | Title: Clark to Captain Sextet; Daly, Burnes Win Cups | 3/12/1965 | See Source »

...computer with a somewhat more insidious charm. Oh, yes, they want questioning minds at Baldwin-Nelson, only "the questioning mind must ask the same questions we ask." He describes the familial intimacy of corporate life, complete with a tidy housing development ("Some of the houses are colonial, some Tudor, but the best ones are both"). After further visits by the org man, Pilgrim decides to end the demeaning charade, only to find that the interviewer has seen through the conformity act all along, and has a few cellos of his own hidden away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Org Man Cometh | 10/2/1964 | See Source »

...oldest universities in the English-speaking world, Oxford and Cambridge are architectural amalgams of virtually every style from 13th century Romanesque through Gothic and Tudor to Victorian. Somehow all the styles blend in a nobly ancient mix of ornate walls, curlicued towers, spires, domes and gables, archways, turrets, gargoyles and waterspouts. The atmosphere is that of a contemplative sanctuary, the world where Wordsworth recorded "Sweet Spenser, moving through his clouded heaven." Gowned scholars still mount gloomy stair wells to their dark, dank digs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Architecture: On from Antiquity | 10/2/1964 | See Source »

...most money-shy college students, the height of gracious living consists of an off-campus pad furnished in Salvation Army modern. For a select group of Los Angeles-area students who are working their way through school, gracious living is a Tudor-styled mansion with 13 bathrooms, tennis courts, grotto, swimming pool, and five acres of grounds landscaped with large and small waterfalls and a lagoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colleges: What a Way to go | 8/28/1964 | See Source »

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