Word: circularity
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...crowd massed before a huge, circular grass mound under which are buried the thousands of unidentified victims* of the first A-bomb drop exactly 13 years ago. Green wreaths were soon piled about the mound; a forest of incense sticks smoldered fragrantly. A bell tolled, signaling a minute's silence-but some women wept aloud. Then, watched by the silent crowd, Hiroshima's Mayor Tadao Watanabe released 800 doves. Ten black-robed Buddhist priests began a solemn, monotonous chant of prayers that would continue until sundown...
...Grail ... It pours out exquisite odors, like streams of gold." The opening scene of Wieland's production duly provided a blinding cobalt blue sky against which was ranged a semicircle of knights in dazzling silver mail. The oak tree where King Heinrich holds court was reduced to a circular cluster of painted branches hung high over the stage. The castle itself was a fringe of Gothic-stylized overhangs...
...small Circarama theater in the U.S. pavilion at the Brussels World's Fair, a white-haired man sat expressionless, arms folded, as the circular screen showed movies of U.S. great scenery and U.S. great works. It was the Fourth of July. Suddenly, when the screen showed an aerial view of scarred old mountains and a broad lake and in the midst of them the Colorado River's gleaming Hoover Dam, the old man acknowledged the applause of a small group of Americans standing around him. Thus was Herbert Clark Hoover, 83, happily reminded of his days as President...
...first-day visitors tried to descend on the U.S. and Russian pavilions. (In the crush, a Belgian guard at the U.S. pavilion was pushed through a plate-glass window, hospitalized.) Both pavilions got mixed notices. There was almost universal agreement that in architectural beauty Edward Stone's circular U.S. pavilion of steel and gold aluminum (TIME, March 31) surpassed Russia's rectangle of frosted glass and steel, though the Soviet building was an improvement on Russia's usual grim monoliths. Those who think that fairs should be fun preferred the U.S. exhibit...
Carillon & Congresses. On a plot of only 13,500 sq. ft., the Protestant pavilion consists of a prefab circular church that will hold 200 people and a prefab one-story display building. Wide arcs of the church wall are glass, so that the passing crowd will be able to look in upon the worshipers at the two daily services (four on Sundays). "We wanted the public to see what Protestant worship is like," says the Rev. Pieter Fagel of The Netherlands, Evangelical Reformed chairman of the pavilion committee...