Word: dionysian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Flattered by this attention, Lucius decided it was time to really do things properly. There was a little of the Dionysian in Lucius too, and as a vender went by hawking food, Lucius raised his voice, "Please, one frankfurter." He sacrificed the coin and in a moment the frankfurter was his. To his horror it arrived covered with relish. Relish did not agree with Lucius, and he determined to take it home and scrape...
...practices directly encouraged what President Quincy considered sinful. Commencement exercises were little more than excuses for feasting and drinking, and since they were open to the public, crowds streamed from all parts of New England to enjoy Harvard's liquid hospitality. Class Day also bore a resemblance to a Dionysian revel...
...Odyssey: A Modern Sequel, by Nikos Kazantzakis, translated by Kimon Friar. With Apollonian clarity and Dionysian passion, Greece's late, famed man of letters challenges Homer with a sequel that is a modern epic of adventure, eroticism, and the universal quest for self-knowledge...
...coming of age in Cambridge is best exemplified by the atlenuation of Class Day, and in particular by the disappearance of the confetti battle. An exhibition of the Dionysian quality of man, a display of unchained frivolity, and a vision of uncommitted youthfulness, the Class Day confetti battle was a gathering of people for the express purpose of throwing confetti at one another according to the dictate of natural reason...
...first year following Thomas' death in Manhattan in 1953. Leftover Life to Kill will shock and infuriate some readers, make passionate partisans of others. The book's most remarkable quality is not its wild, keening dirge for the dead poet, but its revelation of the Dionysian personality and singing, Celtic eloquence of Irish-born Caitlin Thomas...