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Empson's masterpiece is a long theological poem, Bacchus, which he finished in China in 1939. Strictly constructed and packed with systematic puns, it has the mass and polish and concealed energy of a jacketed turbine. The divinity in question is not only the releasing god of drunkenness and wit but God Himself, protean and powerful...
Other new officers are: Pegasus, Donald Andrew Hall, Jr. '51 of Hamden, Connecticut and Eliot House; Treasurer, Robert Montgomery Scott '51 of Villanova, Pennsylvania and Eliot House; Secretary, William E. Wiggin '50 of Beverly Farms and Eliot House; and Bacchus, Arthur Chase Shafer '51 of Cincinnati, Ohio and Eliot House...
...they get to Leverett House Yale men will hear the Whiffenpoofs themselves, as well as another Yale choral group, the Orpheus and Bacchus Society, at Kirkland. It is through the Crimson Key that the HDC will open its doors to Yale students with its production of Amphytrion...
...masterpiece. The gods look more drunk than divine. Vesta, protector of virgins, lies dozing in one corner of the picture while Priapus fiddles with her skirt. A blowsy Ceres helps Apollo hoist cup to lip. Neptune is paired off with Gaea, who holds a quince -the symbol of marriage. Bacchus appears as a child, and his foster father Silenus looks more like a slender ascetic than a roly-poly satyr. Generations of art scholars have wondered...
...portraits and medallions, Wind has identified Mercury as Alfonso's brother Ippolito, Silenus as Pietro Bembo (who later became a cardinal), Silvanus as Painter Bellini himself. Since the Feast was finished several years after the wedding, Alfonso's son Ercole might have played the barrel-tapping little Bacchus...