Word: bacchanalian
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...semester past my graduating class, the process of leaving Harvard has seemed an endless affair to me. During the spring of last year, I lived vicariously through my aughtie-aught companions. I, too, was swept up in the thesis-crunch of February and March, carried away by the bacchanalian reprieve of April and May, and found myself nodding in agreement with the insurgent nostalgia of Senior Week and Graduation. It is hard to describe the whole experience; words fail to capture the emotive inertia that propels the last few months, here. It is something akin to the closing minute...
...more than three weeks after my return, my keep is empty, my will gone. It is right about now I reach maximal fatigue, as those granted freedom quietly and deliberately separate themselves from those condemned to continue battle, one group steeped in bacchanalian post-bellum festival and the other steeped in paper-cut blood. The barbarians are knocking at my gate, and I barely even hear them. At the climax of the battle, when the boiling midnight oil should be burning through pages of texts, I find myself utterly enervated, unable to move or even to breathe...
...ancient and quirky electoral system has been known to award the reins of power to the candidate with fewer popular votes. When Grover S. Cleveland beat out Benjamin Harrison in 1888 by a scant 0.7 percent of votes cast, his supporters did not engage in bacchanalian post-election festivities because Cleveland did not become president. The Electoral College ended up choosing Harrison (Cleveland did, however, win in a subsequent election...
After four days of covering the GOP convention in Philadelphia, I was tired of eating on the run, wolfing down well-meaning but ultimately unsatisfying room-service sandwiches while the folks I covered gorged themselves in drunken, bacchanalian orgies of food. Every morning in the Philly Inquirer, Metro reporters detailed the high flyers' most recent repasts, presumably fighting off hunger pangs as the fat cats fed and preened themselves...
Puritan New England offered few outlets for fun; throughout the region, Harvard Commencement was known as a bacchanalian celebration, the great holiday of the Commonwealth...