Word: dionysian
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...catch Mathias, chunky 6-ft. 1-in. Thompson had to clamber over statuesque 6-ft. 6¾-in. Jürgen Hingsen, the "German Hercules" who holds the decathlon world record. In style and personality the two duelists are a classic study in contrasts. Thompson the Dionysian, Hingsen the Apollonian; the fiery fullback and the shining knight. Thompson, an infectious extravert from a working-class neighborhood of London who blithely chatters away whether or not anyone is listening, treats the field of play as though it were an enormous sandbox. Hingsen performs without wasted motion or emotion, intently striking...
This musical is a cross between a Dionysian revel and an old-fashioned revival meeting. The religion that Hair preaches, and often screeches, is flower power, pot and protest. Its music is pop-rock, and its dialogue is mostly graffiti. Hair is lavish in dispraise of all things American, except presumably liberty. The play itself borders on license by presenting a scene in which half a dozen members of the cast, male and female, face the audience in the nude. This tableau is such a dimly lit still life that it will leave most playgoers yawning...
...only give us a narrow, well-defined text about O'Neill. Rather, he sacrifices a small amount of detail and scope to share with us the cardinal doctrines of O'Neill's philosophy, With this purpose in mind. Berlin is able to use evidence from Greek tragedy. Nietzsche's Dionysian philosophy and Freudian psychology to touch that fog that surrounded O'Neill. Though, as Berlin himself admits, his subject "wrote with a burning intensity that eludes description or analysis," that broadened picture makes the book worthwhile. O'Neill gazed into places where others were forbidden to look, but at least...
...brutal cycle, but Lowell always managed to emerge intact, writing away as if the poet and his demons were connected in some dark Dionysian manner. His second wife, the novelist and critic Elizabeth Hardwick, describes him in 1958 at the time he completed Life Studies. After three months in an institution, "the papers piled up on the floor, the books on the bed, the bottles of milk on the windowsill, and the ashtray filled. He looked like one of the great photographs of Whitman...
...observed: "Of the three musicians who dominated the musical scene during the first half of the 20th century-Stravinsky, Schoenberg and BartÓk-it is the Hungarian master who, despite his intellectual control, remained the nearest to the instinctual, the irrational in music, and thus to the Dionysian spirit...