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...though he were equipped with the heels of Mercury and the capacity of Bacchus, could have attended all the pre-game parties. These fests were in all the rooms, ornamented by a more glamorous set of women than say ever seen this fall on the banks of the Charles...

Author: By R. SCOT Leavitt, | Title: Pretty Girls, Gendarmes Alert for Big Weekend | 11/22/1947 | See Source »

Boston Symphony Esplanade Concert (Tues. 8:30 p.m., ABC). The Frescobaldi-Kindler Toccata, Wagner's Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde, Liszt's Concerto in E-Flat, Delibes' Procession of Bacchus from Sylvia. Conductor: Arthur Fiedler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Jul. 7, 1947 | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

Orpheus Joined by Bacchus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Electronics School | 7/23/1943 | See Source »

...wave of licentiousness . . . which is now having such a rage in America. . . . What Russia did under the Bolsheviks in the twenties, what Germany did in the thirties, and what Japan practiced with her Geisha girls has now become introduced into American life. . . . Joined with this is the elevation of Bacchus to a new position...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Conservatives | 5/17/1943 | See Source »

...mushrooms; Ben Ali Gator, premier danseur of an ostrich ballet set to Ponchielli's corny Dance of the Hours; Susan, the hippopotamus ballerina whose blimplike cavortings in a pas de deux with Ben Ali Gator literally bring down the house in a wreck of flying plaster; Bacchus and his donkey Jacchus, who trip and roll through the Grant Woodland scape of Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Disney's Cinesymphony | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

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