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This book is a somewhat violent, some what gamy anthropology of New Orleans below the belt. Most of the material for it was jotted down in hundreds of conversa tions with Negroes and white people. It begins with the cacophonous Mardi Gras saturnalia of "Kings, Baby Dolls. Zulus and Queens'' (Baby Dolls are Negro trulls, Zulus are their men friends who elect a Negro King of the Mardi Gras). It ends with "Superstitions," "Colloquialisms" and "Customs." In between, the book's 581 pages are acrawl with underworld or otherworld manifestations...
Britons, recalling the saturnalia of 1918's Armistice Day, were chiefly concerned about the forthcoming V-day celebrations. In the House of Commons, Lady Nancy Astor urged that all pubs be closed on V-day. She hinted darkly at "plans to get our men drunk on the one day when we should all be on our knees thanking God." Said Prime Minister Winston Churchill: "Those misgivings are very exaggerated." But Sir Andrew Duncan, Minister of Supply, shared Lady Astor's misgivings. He warned Britons to "behave in a dignified way and not become inebriated." Nevertheless, pubs and bars...
...scheduled to last three hours, was over in 40 minutes. Last week the Americans gasped out the reason, in reports whose most sensational sins were those of omission. Impressed, apparently, by the fact that the SPARS were in show business, the Canadian crew had readied themselves for a mild saturnalia. When the SPARS and tars boarded the tug,_ a keg of rum was close at hand. The tug crew, said the witnesses, was already so far in its cups that only two were fit for duty. The others were good-natured but persistent. They began to "molest" the SPARS. What...
...Saturnalia. Mack's party for Doc was premature. To finance it the boys collected 500 frogs (for which Doc would pay 5? apiece), then traded the frogs to Lee Chong for liquor which they drank while waiting for Doc to show up. When he finally arrived, his house was a shambles. But no Steinbeck story of Monterey could end on so grim a note. All Cannery Row cooperated to make up for the destruction by giving the music-loving old scientist a party they could enjoy, and the book ends with the sound of revelry by night, a saturnalia...
Private Life, Public Saturnalia. Dumas' private life became a public saturnalia of love affairs, gargantuan gastronomy, successes in the theater, speculations on the Bourse, financial crashes, perpetual indebtedness from which he sometimes escaped by travels that took him to Russia, Transcaucasia, Africa...