Word: endymion
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...line krewes. The king of the parade each year was not some anonymous banker, secure in the knowledge that anyone who counts knows who's behind the mask, but somebody like Jackie Gleason or Perry Como or Ed McMahon. Eventually, there was a second Bacchus-like krewe named Endymion. Its king last year was Spuds MacKenzie...
...poses of carved apostles; Orpheus with a ram on his shoulders was transformed into Christ the good shep herd. Winged victories became angels. Bacchus turned into the drunken Noah; a late 3rd century carving of Jonah resting under the gourd tree was based on the older Greek image of Endymion asleep. The more refined an early Christian work was, the more subtly it might display its classical affiliations...
...England, specifically to the Treasury. Since Prime Ministers are also First Lords of the Treasury, they have had their way-and their woes-with the building for 229 years. Walpole openly entertained his mistress there; Pitt happily tippled his port on the premises; and Disraeli penned his Endymion between parliamentary debates. But seven P.M.s refused to live in No. 10's cramped quarters; between 1847 and 1877, it was completely untenanted, and then Disraeli moved in only because his gout made the trip to his office too painful. During the blitz, Churchill disconcertingly called No. 10 "shaky" and encouraged...
...psychology of such things as Keats's ambivalent feeling toward women-induced, Miss Ward feels, by his shock when his mother married again barely two months after the death of his father. On many insignificant details-such as whether Keats had syphilis when he wrote Endymion-the two biographers differ sharply (Ward: yes, Bate: no). But they emphatically agree that Fanny Brawne, the girl Keats wanted to marry, was not the heartless flirt that Keats's friends and generations of Keats's sympathizers make her out to be. She loved Keats and was patient with...
...which was a fair warm day, [Keats] took a short walk in the garden, but he seems to have remained indoors the rest of the month, spending much time in bed." And Bate treats the familiar questions of Keats scholarship--his medical history, his finances, the effect of the Endymion reviews--with an informed common sense that never collapses into pedantry. Even his analyses of the poetry, although rigorously technical, provoke the most inattentive reader to a new understanding of the great Odes (particularly the "Ode to a Nightingale") and the epic fragments...