Word: dionysiacs
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...dress, with Pentheus of Thebes looking something like a teenage Marshal Ky, and the god Dionysus a blond-haired cigarette-smoking James Dean. The first resemblance is most pointed; Babe interprets the autocratic, highly organized government of Thebes as a garrison--perhaps fascist--state, threatened by the earthly, irrational Dionysiac cult. The interpretation works in that Babe's production is exciting theatre, and in the end faithful to the original as well. Just the same there are points worth questioning...
...state; here the parallel with fascism seems valid. But where does such an interpretation leave Dionysus, whose orgiastic cult--according to Philip Vellacott, another translator of The Bacchac--offers "an escape from reason back to the simple joys of a mind and body surrendered to unity with Nature?" The Dionysiac escape is a far cry from democracy, one obvious alternative to fascism. Its closeness to nature and opposition to organized civilization are, in fact, as integral components of Nazism as the military order of Pentheus. The Dionysiac cult is the ancestor of the same Wagnerian heritage that gave illegitimate birth...
Birdland Stars of '57 includes Billy Eckstine, Sarah Vaughn, and Count Basie in Dionysiac festivities. Sunday at 6:30 and 9:30 in Symphony Hall...
...Ella Alexander Boole, indefatigable world president of the W.C.T.U., got the idea that liberated Europeans are giving U.S. troops a Dionysiac welcome, deplored it: "Why, they're drinking wine. Wine! They're offering our boys jugs of wine. They could just as easily have given them fruit juices...
Hollywood is her element. The vibrations are right. The rarefied atmosphere exhilarates instead of suffocating her. She is possessed not only of Dionysiac energy but also of an all but demoniac appetite for expending it. All of each day, from 9 to 7, she pours this boiling vitality into office work, as lavishly over minor details as major crises. All of each evening, until a normal 3 a.m., she keeps right on working-at parties. The only thing that can keep her away from a party given by Elsa Maxwell, Lady Mendl or Cobina Wright Sr. or Barbara Hutton Grant...