Word: tudors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first Commencement, members of the graduating class will deliver orations in Latin and English; the President, seated in his ancient Tudor chair, will admit Bachelors to the "fellowship of educated men," and recipients of doctoral degrees to the "ancient and universal company of scholars." Honorary degrees, like that first one conferred on George Washington will be given to those distinguished few who have done something for Harvard in specific or humanity in general. With each honorary degree, the President will pronounce a short testimonial, composed in a flowery language reminiscent of the eighteenth century...
Kinasewich and Ikauniks, both among Harvard's all-time ten highest scorers, are the first pair to share the John Tudor Memorial Hockey Cup since 1935. They were chosen not only on the basis of their ability, but also for their sportsmanship, leadership, team cooperation, and clutch performance...
...tunes, all originals. Tschudin's group played a lonely, jagged kind of jazz: in ensemble, it sometimes bordered on the disorderly. Its hear number, Half Dozen, featured a wispy, peaceful solo by flutist Ray Taylor. Tschudin, on piano, played a startling mixture of styles: Cecil Taylor, Horace Silver, David Tudor, and his own. His combo is rough around the edges, but his attempt to find his own way makes his music exciting...
Soundproof Partying. "The privacy is wonderful," says Mrs. Richardson Spofford, a biology professor at the University of Chicago, who lives with her accountant husband, their three-year-old son, her mother and a couple of students in the 18-room Tudor mansion that once belonged to the Wilson meatpacking family. "The rooms are virtually soundproof. My mother can be playing television full blast and I'll never hear it. When the annual community ball is given in our ballroom, Mother doesn't hear...
...most negotiable currency, the moneyed matrons are out and the "official" hostesses-the wives of ambassadors and Administration officials-are in. Short of a summons to dinner at the White House, few invitations are treasured as highly as those to 2221 Kalorama Road, N.W., site of the grey stone, Tudor-style French embassy and home of Nicole Alphand...