Word: bacchic
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Even after the turn of the century, most German art still looked like stage sets commissioned by Wagner. Idealized landscapes, preferably misty, thronged with the gods of Greece, Valhalla toughs and Bacchic satyrs like some sort of mythological beaux-arts ball. It took a few artists of more personal vision to make German art modern...
...young wife had died years before) with little left but his literary allusions. Encrusted with irony, hobbled by a pedagogue's inability to face life except in terms of art, Soby nevertheless fancies himself a secret worshiper of the wisdom of the body-for him symbolized by the bacchic visions that lured Gustav Aschenbach, the aging hero of Thomas Mann's famous novella, Death in Venice, to a debasing but idyllic passion for a beautiful young...
...Bacchic Rout. Toward 4 o'clock in the morning the rioting subsided. But the lull was illusory. By early afternoon of V-E day a bacchic rout of men, women and even children reeled down Barrington, Hollis and, Granville Streets smashing more windows and sacking more stores. Said one elderly woman: "I never had so much fun in my life...
...Seven Names. This blond, blue-eyed, Bacchic roughneck had seven names before he died as Kamâl Atat...
Miss Hopkins, really the only one in the cast who does anything but walk about and strike attitudes, draws all that could be drawn out of this hodgepodge. It has, at best, a dark effectiveness, which she makes the most of: in the dinner table scene, in the bacchic moment of her triumph, in the resolution of hers and her lover's destinies in the end. Helen Claire, who plays her rival, sets off her unscrupulous cleverness for the best effect. Truly she makes a fine, sinister Jezebel, and if a beautiful wicked and elevah woman has any attraction...