Word: pavilion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vortex of paper plates, pop bottles and fluttering fans, 800 sweating delegates of the Philippines' Nacionalista Party met in Manila Hotel's Fiesta Pavilion one day last week to pick their presidential nominee for next November's election. It was hot and noisy, as a good convention should be. But the suspense did not last long...
Early in his two-hour speech, the delegates listened politely. But as he droned on, the pavilion became clamorous with catcalls, whistles and the rhythmic banging of pop bottles. "Lastly! Lastly!" shouted delegates-meaning that the Senator should make his last point and sit down. Finally, he did. Magsaysay followed him and was brief. "I am a man of action," said he. "Therefore, I am not a speechmaker." Magsaysay sat down to a fervent ovation...
...Independence drawn 34 years ago in Seoul. On the night before, tramcars festooned with hundreds of electric light bulbs rocked along the main streets. From City Hall thousands of students in Japanese-style student uniforms marched singing and chanting in a torchlight parade down the main thoroughfares to the pavilion in Pagoda Park, where Korean patriots had defiantly proclaimed their demands to the Japanese occupiers. The student columns, marched in good order and high spirits...
...Venice Biennale art show, a pavilion was set aside for glass, and in it were the works of the city's modern glassmakers. There were dark-colored pitchers with sweeping curves, smoky white vases, clear bottles studded with agate eyes, pieces of rough green glass blown and shaped into portrait heads, vases with interwoven filigrees, bowls that looked as fragile as a lace handkerchief. Some were done in delicate light glass; others were heavy and solidly streamlined, their soft colors worked smoothly into the glass...
...always achieved. Hopper's 20 contributions are comparatively dour, and less deft, but their directness and monumentality may help earn him a place in history next to the two great masters of American painting, Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins. Max Gubler's 42 paintings turn the Swiss pavilion into a sunlit peak, and assure the reputation of a hitherto little-known artist. "Talent and ideas," says Gubler, "are nothing. The job is to paint what you have seen and what you feel in the only way those things can be expressed." That timeless credo has no truck with...