Word: pavilion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Temple of the Golden Pavilion, by Yukio Mishima. A masterly exercise in reason-why literature-in this case, why a demented Buddhist priest, loathing beauty, burns down a magnificent 14th century Zen temple...
...Temple of the Golden Pavilion, by Yukio Mishima. A psychotic Buddhist priest, despising his ugly self and loathing beauty, burns down a magnificent 14th century temple-and a master of literary indirection tells...
...find that TIME, in its issue of Aug. 3, published an erroneous statement to the effect that Captain Astor was a patient in the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic at the time his will was being drawn. It grew out of a witness' unfortunate confusion between the Baker Pavilion of New York Hospital and the Payne Whitney clinic. The fact is that the late Captain Astor was never at any time in his life in the Payne Whitney clinic, or in any other psychiatric institution. Captain Astor went to New York Hospital in May 1958 to be treated...
...Paulo, Brazil last week, under the sleek, concrete shell of the Ibirapuera Park pavilion, 400 delegates and observers of the 18th General Council of the World Presbyterian Alliance waited for the showdown. Even before the first session began, the delegates (representing 76 Reformed and Presbyterian church bodies with more than 45 million members) shifted their interest from theology to a theologian. In the limelight: Czechoslovakia's Dr. Joseph Hromadka, 70, wartime lecturer at Princeton, dean of Prague's Communist-controlled Amos Comenius Theological Faculty, a wheel in the World Council of Churches and a vice president...
...Temple of the Golden Pavilion, by Yukio Mishima. Beauty's dark power to paralyze the will is merely one among many meanings in this sensuously symbolic novel about the burning of a 14th century Buddhist temple...