Word: gluttonous
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...theater as a classroom works ideally in Galileo. To the audience, the great astronomer plays teacher, a kind of intellectual locksmith picking at the rusty encrustations of habit, custom and tradition as he elucidates his proofs that the earth revolves around the sun. This Galileo is a glutton of food, wine and ideas. As one character says, he has "thinking bouts." As Brecht sees it, this very appetite is Galileo's fatal flaw. His desire to save his skin ranks above any devotion to a pure priesthood of science, any will to suffer death for the truths...
...glutton. I eat your...
Dyspeptic Glutton. He was in jail because he liked to whip girls. Sometimes even a prostitute's pay is not enough for this sort of thing-De Sade's flagellating apparatus could be pretty damaging-and there were complaints about this, and also about sodomy, which carried the death penalty. His rank saved him from the gallows but not from himself. His trouble seems to have been that he was a stupendous sexual glutton and at the same time a sexual dyspeptic; too much was not enough. His pleasure was pain, and pain was his pleasure. Jail confined...
...glutton, a sinner, and will go to hell. Overcoming the evil temptation is my problem, my task, and my greatest test...
...that he not only turned them into songs but turned the songs into symphonies. The texts are often grim or sardonic. The "tra-la-lee" in Reveille celebrates a roll call when "dead comrades muster," and after St. Anthony preaches to the fishes, "the carp's still a glutton, and sermon forgotten." Felix Prohaska conducts the orchestral accompaniment for the Swiss baritone, Heinz Rehfuss, and the Canadian-born contralto, Maureen Forrester, who divide the songs and the honors between them...