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Fiddling with the door lock on the Tudor-style mansion, Funk says it will rain today. The countryside hums with farm machinery and insects. Inside, the house smells, the way old houses tend to, moist and rich, as if someone had enclosed a creek bottom. Late summer motes settle gently on the esoteric acquisitions of the once famous George Ade. Here a Grecian urn, there a Waterford crystal punch bowl that, when flicked crisply with a fingernail, keeps ringing clearly long after the flicker has left the room...
Snobbery is always preposterous but also sometimes useful. "The use of forks at table," observes the English writer Jasper Griffin, "seemed to our Tudor ancestors the height of affectation, so, the first to follow that Italian custom doubtless did so, in large part, to impress their neighbors with their sophistication. Evolution itself is a process of rising above one's origins and one's station." The writer Sébastien Chamfort located what is surely the ultimate snob, a nameless French gentleman: "A fanatical social climber, observing that all round the Palace of Versailles it stank of urine...
...philosophical. "One has lived with this a long time," he observes. "If one looks around the country, there are very few names-Merce Cunningham, Paul Taylor, Jerry Robbins, Twyla Tharp, Eliot Feld. It must have been wonderful to be here in the '40s when Balanchine, Antony Tudor and Agnes de Mille were making ballets for A.B.T. I wish I could choreograph like Balanchine, but I can't, so I am patient and I try out new talent. If I find a choreographer strong enough to take over this wonderful company, I would make it his or hers...
SEEKING DIVORCE. Andrew Lloyd Webber, 35, pop composer who currently has three hit musicals running in New York City (Evita, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Cats); and Sarah Jane Tudor, 34, his wife of twelve years and mother of his two children; in London...
Senior defenseman Mark Fusco of Burlington, Mass, and Eliot House, who won the Hobey Baker Award earlier this spring, was selected to the John Tudor Memorial Award as the team's Most Valuable Player for the second straight season. The 5'9", 175-pound Fusco, a three-time All American, was Harvard's number two scorer with 46 points on 13 goals, 33 assists...