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Lowell threw open it's magnificent wears for its annual Bacchanalia. Was it as wild enough to deserve the name of Bacchus...
...Blame the debauchery on those hedonistic ancient Greeks and Romans. The arrival of spring, the season of fertility and awakening, was historically celebrated in tandem with the veneration of Dionysus or Bacchus - the Greek and Roman gods of wine. More immediate responsibility, however, lies with a swimming coach at Colgate University, Sam Ingram, who brought his team down to Fort Lauderdale in 1936 to train at the Casino Pool - the first Olympic-size swimming pool in Florida. In 1938, sensing a marketing opportunity, the city hosted the first College Coaches' Swim Forum at the Casino Pool; according to one source...
...Twombly's later work is merely soft. In the 1980s he began to work creamy flows of paint across the canvas in an all-too-plain signifier for the surface of water. But the last gallery of this show contains four vast canvases, part of a series called Bacchus that he completed in 2005. In each, a maelstrom of overlapping vermilion loops bleed thin trails of pigment toward the floor. The gods are dead? Don't tell Twombly. Even in old age, he can still summon thunder from Olympus...
...sound-bite century. Consider the famous passage from Paradise Lost, describing Eve in Eden, which is one of the culminating exhibits in Smith's celebration of Milton. The 20-line sentence contains 20 proper names: Enna, Prosperin, Dis, Ceres, Daphne, Orontes, Castalian, Nyseian, Triton, Cham, Ammon, Lybian Jove, Amalthea, Bacchus, Rhea, Abassin, Amara, Ethiop, Nilus, Assyrian. How many people nowadays (even among the exceptionally well-educated readers of TIME) know what all those words mean? I majored in classics at university, and there's a part of me that savors Milton's weaving of so much ancient literary history into...
...that. It was all a blur.” Travia was one of five honored as “National Outstanding Advisors” at the assembly, which hosted 148 colleges and is the largest conference of peer educators in the country. The annual event is held by the BACCHUS Network, an international organization dedicated to promoting peer-based education on drug and alcohol use. (The acronym stands for Boosting Alcohol Consciousness Concerning the Health of University Students.) The five winners were chosen from a pool of twenty nominees. “We look for someone who goes beyond...