Word: cultic
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Perhaps gathering in cultic groups "rather like women meeting in consciousness-raising groups of the 1960s," men groped their way toward an ideology of dominance and manipulation. Patriarchy took over the world and has distorted human culture for more than 5,000 years with its obsession with power. Male self-identity depends on the ability to control women and nature. No dominance, no manhood. Parodying Vince Lombardi on football, French writes: "In a patriarchal world, power is not just the highest but the only value." Elsewhere she seems to say that slaughter is required for male identity: "Killing became...
Death and the King’s Horseman, the Academy wrote, is “in the nature of an antique tragedy with the cultic sacrificial death as theme. The relationship between the unborn, the living and the dead, to which Soyinka reverts several times in his works, is fashioned here with very strong effect. Soyinka confirms his position as a centre of force in drama...
...bracing to come upon an intelligent elitist long, long dead, especially when we live in an Ephesus of our own, filled, as his was, with mediocrities and idiot intoxications. Haxton writes in his introduction: "To a sober mind, the drunkenness of cultic worshippers must have been particularly unappealing in a cosmopolitan city like Ephesus, with gods of wine on every side, drunken Greeks initiated into the Thracian ecstasies of Dionysus running amok with drunken Phrygians worshipping Sabazius, Lydians possessed by Bassareus, and Cretans in the frenzy of Zagreus, all claiming in their cups to have transcended understanding...
...bracing to come upon an intelligent elitist long, long dead, especially when we live in an Ephesus of our own, filled, as his was, with mediocrities and idiot intoxications. Haxton writes in his introduction: "To a sober mind, the drunkenness of cultic worshipers must have been particularly unappealing in a cosmopolitan city like Ephesus, with gods of wine on every side, drunken Greeks initiated into the Thracian ecstacies of Dionysius running amok with drunken Phrygians worshipping Sabazius, Lydians possessed by Bassareus, and Cretans in the frenzy of Zagreus, all claiming in their cups to have transcended understanding...
...respectably-dressed stranger, William Hard, visits a mother, Dora, and daughter, Susannah, to deliver a message about their father, the amiably named Ray. The mystery of the stranger and the contents of the letter, however, gradually give rise to a series of colorfully existentialist and epistemological revelations, odd cultic rituals involving trousers and the moon, and a great deal of hemming and hawing over both. One could describe the plot--basically, Ray is actually a duplicate husband, mildly deviant, that William Hard must replace--but it is in essence less interesting, for all its gratuitous weirdness, than the atmosphere...