Word: bacchanalia
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...Donald Barthelme, Jerzy Kosinski and Truman Capote do not come to their party. They miss quite a scene. Among the uncelebrated guests is a Holocaust survivor who literally levitates the living room with horror stories. Lucy also rises to the occasion with a Christian-pagan vision rooted in agriculture, bacchanalia and fertility symbols. The reader is left suspended with images of unreachable men locked in "the glory of their martyrdom," and of the Holocaust as multiple Crucifixions in which "every Jew was Jesus." Not since Elaine dined alone has there been a stranger tale of literary New York...
Although the Church intended only to retain pagan forms, it had a difficult time restraining the pagan spirit. Despite clerical protests and papal anathemas, Christmas in the early days preserved many of the worst orgies, debaucheries and indecencies of the Bacchanalia and Saturnalia. The clergy itself was whirled into the vortex, instituting a Feast of Fools so that "the folly which is natural to and born with us might exhale . . . once a year...
John Belushi didn't show up, but the loga Party held by seven Leverett House seniors last Saturday night was a success nonetheless. The party was not as wild as some may have dreamed, however. For example, the Bacchanalia did not last until 5 a.m. as the invitations warned--not that several dedicated students did not try to prolong the ecstasy. Despite early rumors that the gathering would degenerate into an unmitigated orgy, most participants came with their garb securely fastened to their bodies by a unique assortment of pins, loops, staples and other flesh-concealing paraphernalia. Not a single...
...wants to abstain from the usual undergraduate bacchanalia, a good way to start the penitence would be to converse--Friday night, April 7 at 8:45 p.m.--with Yosef Yerushalm, professor of Hebrew and Jewish History, at a Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel Sabath Table Talk. The subject of discussion will be "Jewish Life in America and the East European Model...
Despite, if not because of, such Bacchanalia, the Winter Park junior patrol was the finest in the country. At the annual National Ski Patrol Jamboree, the Winter Park juniors took first in the competition for best overall junior patrol in 1972 and again in 1973, the year Jim joined and the year Bob Patterson was president. In 1974, when Jim was president, they didn't compete. They'd raised so much hell partying in 1973 that they were asked not to return. By that time, though, the tradition of an annual group trip was established. In 1974, with money raised...