Word: pagoda
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...poured concrete piers, the new city hall is more bold than beautiful. But it possesses a rough-and-tough force and assertiveness that Jack Kennedy might, with his Boston accent, have called "vigah." Predictably, it has drawn its quota of quips, being labeled variously "the blockhouse," "an upside-down pagoda," and "the tomb of Cheops." But informal polls indicate that an increasing number of secretaries and taxi drivers are coming to like it. The architects hope that with time the city hall will accumulate the usual collection of flags and trophies. "It should bear the marks of the people...
...Viet Cong "ex-filtration" by boat-commanded his officers to file false position reports and then took the Vance in close some 20 times to bombard the shore. On another occasion, Arnheiter brought the Vance within 250 yds. of the beach to blast a Buddhist pagoda that he suspected of being a Communist automatic-weapons position-and, according to the junior officers, avoided grounding only because Exec Hardy "relieved the skipper at the conn" and wheeled the ship to safety...
Brown-robed Buddhist Monk Thich Hanh Dao said that the monks in his Delta pagoda had discussed the candidates before voting, "and we all agreed to vote for the same person." That person was Huong, the monk hinted, but he admitted that he would not have been surprised if some of his colleagues had changed their minds. "When you walk into that little black room," he said, "you suddenly become aware that you really are free to pick whomever you want. It makes you stop and think...
...world-famous, but the others, though less well known, are well worth the discovery. Sigiriya, a mountain fortress in Ceylon, was abandoned after King Kassapa, disgraced in battle, committed suicide. Anuradhapura and Polonnarawa, also in Ceylon, were capital cities until their destruction by Tamil invaders; Pagan, Burma's pagoda city, gleamed with golden cupolas, bright frescoes and a forest of stupas before it was overwhelmed by Mongols. Swaan's text is as illuminating as his color plates...
...tenure was hardly the fault of the bonzes, who for months have been trying every trick in the pagoda political manual to oust the government: massive protest demonstrations, immolations (last week a 16-year-old girl became the tenth suicide by fire in the monks' current campaign), blocking streets with household altars, burning U.S. Jeeps and other vehicles, and riots, riots everywhere. All have proved to no avail...