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Word: bacchanalation (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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There's an enormous platter of live black eels in an inky sauce, and that's only the hors d'oeuvres. As the guests seat themselves at the banquet, their hostess urinates in a silver chamber pot. Slaves stumble over garbage-strewn floors bearing trays of delicacies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Directors: Petronius, 20%; Fellini, 80% | 9/12/1969 | See Source »

About March, CRIMSON readers puzzled over classified ads blaring: "Wanted: 100 pounds of raw meat and a cage. Contact: Jubilee Committee." This, of course, was a prelude to the surprise announcement that The Animals had been hired to perform for the freshmen. What is particularly amazing is that this group...

Author: By Peter J. Bernbaum, | Title: The Glorious Story of Jubilee: Why You Want to Go This Year | 4/30/1969 | See Source »

In an effort to integrate summer school students into the Harvard community, the Vice-Narthex of the world renowned Harvard Lampoon announced that there will be a grand bacchanal this evening at the Lampoon building (once described by a Cambridge city councillor as a potentially inspired public toilet) at the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Generous 'Poon Asks Everyone to a Party | 7/16/1968 | See Source »

Beneath the bitchy, lancing wit of the verbal byplay, Playwright Mart Crowley keeps a dead-level eye on the desolating aspects of homosexual life. He records the loveless, brief encounters, the guilt-ridden, blackout reliance on alcohol, the endless courtship rat race of the gay bars with its inevitable quota...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Plays: The Boys in the Band | 4/26/1968 | See Source »

But that was not all-though it has taken over a century and a half to discover the second Goya in the Goya. Last June, Madrid's Prado Museum decided to have The Family of Charles IV cleaned and rebacked with a fresh canvas. When the first layer of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painting: A Share in the Bacchanal | 12/22/1967 | See Source »

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