When, later that decade, The Economist's correspondent in Singapore invited him to a party for a visiting editor, the gathering quickly polarised into two unequal camps.
But when the designer and her sister invited the cousin, her husband and their teenage daughter to Thanksgiving dinner, the gathering quickly became strained.
Sergio had turned to the Web to disseminate details about the gathering quickly, but in doing so changed the nature of the event.
The gathering quickly turned into abusive heckling, as members of Congress passing through Longworth House office building were subjected to epithets and even mild physical abuse.
Several dozen young men tried to gather on the Corniche, a boulevard along the Mediterranean, but the gathering was quickly broken up by more than 100 police officers in riot gear assisted by plainclothes security officers.
"That you happened to receive it is a great joy and happy surprise, but the fact the prize went to poetry felt very good," she said, addressing him at a gathering that quickly moved into the vestibule of their home in Stockholm.
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Today, he held a meeting to hear neighborhood grievances, which, as gatherings here do, quickly turned into a cacophony of shouting about relatives lost under Mr. Hussein, seized property since his fall, a lack of security and the loss of electricity.
"Beginning in New Zealand, this will be a rolling wave of candlelight gatherings that will quickly cross the globe," said the Web site, established by several advocacy groups with endorsements from Archbishop Desmond Tutu and other members of the clergy.
