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...Professor Jacob Bacchus Taylor was drafted to head the State Liquor Board...
Five candidates were elected to membership and John H. Huntington '40 was elected "Bacchus" for life a new post...
...President; Gardner C. Quarton, '40, succeeding R. Palmer Baker, Jr., '39, as Secretary; Paul W. Cherington, '40, succeeding John H. Davies, '39 as Treasurer; Lonsdale F. Stowell, '41, as Advertising Manager; Samuel S. Binnian, '40, succeeding Allen W. Clowes, '39, as Circulation Manager; and John H. Huntington, '40, as Bacchus...
Since anthropology then consisted mainly of the Greek and Roman myths as related by Ovid, he had to rely on his imagination. He painted a troop of satyrs and demi-mortals congregating in a meadow around a hollow tree, a young bibulous Bacchus, a grinning Silenus straddling a donkey. Most of the company were engaged in making a racket on tin pans, to coax a swarm of bees into a cluster. Title: The Discovery of Honey...
Echoed and re-echoed throughout the Cantos are two ancient legends-the Homeric tale of Odysseus' journey through Hades, the Ovidian tale of the seamen who, while kidnapping Bacchus, were transformed to dolphins as their ship, becalmed, sprouted grape-laden vines. The legends appear indiscriminately in ancient. Renaissance and modern dress, according to whichever time or whatever place Poet Pound's eruditely literate, expatriated sensibilities lead him to be thinking about. The resultant confusion is only skin-deep -since to any man, anywhere, any time, life may seem like Hell; and some sea-change in men or matter...