Word: pagoda
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Flower Drum Song. East meets West, but Broadway takes over both in this run-of-the-pagoda musical by Rodgers & Hammerstein...
...spirit of Harvard's venerable tradition of eclecticism that the next House should be fashioned. Combining the appearance of Lamont and the forbidden city of Peking, the new House could perhaps be built as a Bauhaus Pagoda. Corridors could run in circles around a central elevator shaft, while a facing of gilded gargoyles could garnish the outside...
...Sikkim. For a while the Sikkimese tried to run their own show. But one day in 1949, peasants in their high boots and yakskin suits surrounded the Maharajah's yellow palace at Gangtok (pop. 7,000), a capital of doll-like houses with blue pagoda roofs, perched precariously 6,000 ft. up a mountain. In a bloodless revolution, they got their demands for an elected national council and an end to tax collection by landlords. But after a 29-day experiment in democracy, the Maharajah dispatched an S O S to India...
...architecture, too, smacks of modernity and the future. One building looks like a great stone bird; another has a corrugated wall; the roof of the United Nations exhibit hall is a half-sphere. A few of the national pavilions deviate from the functional scheme--Thailand has a charming gilded pagoda; Italy a stucco villa. But for the most part, all the catchwords of the 20th century can describe the Fair--futuristic, atomic-age, electronic, Cinemascopic...
...mansion was profusely decorated, symmetrically, and the walled grounds surrounding it included an ornamental lake, a pagoda, a maze, and a rose garden. The house contained a 10,000 volume (leather-bound) library, and on every conspicuous surface through the building were carved helpful thoughts, such as "When Shall We Live...