Word: dionysian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...audience (not just the disorderly ones) seems to have judged that the organizers violated an unwritten social contract. Things came to a head on the final night; the crowds made bonfires of accumulated trash heaps and danced around the flames--a Dionysian image for the cameras. Rioters, admittedly a small minority of the crowd of more than 200,000, attacked concession stands and threw tables and chairs onto the flames. The more ambitious attacked an ATM. Someone burned a Mercedes near the stage; others set fire to 12 tractor-trailer trucks; propane tanks fired off gaudily...
Those noble enough to enjoy learning are content to spend their weekends reading or conversing with other intellectuals. I find Harvard overflowing with a-dionysian exploits, such as office hours with exceptional professors and literally inexhaustible libraries. But assume that I am alone in this belief; perhaps there exist students for whom books are not their sole comfort...
...getting a new push toward activism from an unlikely source--Beastie Boys. The white rap trio began as a Dionysian semiparody of hip-hop, rapping about parties, girls and beer. Today they are the founders and headliners of the Tibetan Freedom Concert, an annual concert that raises money for and awareness about human-rights issues in Tibet. Last week Beastie Boys, along with the hip-hop-charged hard-rock band Rage Against the Machine and the progressive rap duo Black Star, staged a controversial concert in New Jersey to raise money for the legal fees of Mumia Abu-Jamal...
...teenager should be awarded sheafs of Rimbaud for daring to transgress Miklavcic's and, I might add, the United States' repressive legislation by tasting the Dionysian delight that the ancients dared not withhold from their young. The herd instinct of this puritan university would have us agree with Miklavcic's judgements though most of us secretly empathize with the 16-year...
This year's Marathon is not only a time for personal reflection and Dionysian pleasure, but also for historical perspective. There is particular significance to running this year's marathon as women. We will follow in the literal footsteps of women like Kathrine Switzer, fellow Cantabridgian Sara Mae Berman and Joan Benoit who were among the first women to run Boston's course. While Nina Kuscsik of Huntington, N.Y. won the first official women's marathon in 1972, Switzer, Berman and Benoit stand out as three female pioneers. In 1967, Switzer, a Syracuse University student, applied for a race...