Word: dionysiacs
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...York Herald Tribune, another reporter, sensitively attuned to ihe muffled sound of plush meeting plush, described revelry in Manhattan. Wrote Columnist Lucius Beebe: "The gold rush is on. ... New York is only now in its finest and ultimate dionysiac frenzies. . . . It is only necessary to belly up to the bar at Monte Carlo ... or insinuate yourself past the five or six dinner-jacketed guards at the Stork...
...more volumes of verse, a series of interpretations of poetry and religion, the five volumes of his urbane, skeptical statement of naturalism, The Life of Reason. Although Santayana himself had declared that he was no poet, comparing himself to Don Quixote, the Spanish-American War aroused him to "the Dionysiac frenzy and impassioned tenderness" that he considered essential for true poetry. When the Spanish Fleet at Santiago was destroyed; Admiral Sampson made the "boorish jest" of calling the victory a Fourth of July present to the U. S. people. Santayana wrote Spain in America as an answer. The poem...
...sound of a jackass braying spreads Dionysiac frenzy through a whole community...
...refused to give it up. Feeling ran high; there were fist fights; the fortunes of war wavered. In desperation Don Taddeo even set fire to the inn where Sin kept wakeful nights. In the end he surrendered the key, confessed himself beaten; the bucket was displayed. After four Dionysiac weeks the opera company departed. Shouted Lawyer Belotti: "What are we? A little town. What did these guests bring us? A little music. And yet-we have felt enthusiasm, we have striven, and we have made a little progress in the school of humanity!" With cheers the whole populace escorted...
...high, the latter the lower orchestra. Professor Doerpfeld maintained that this is incorrect, that, in fact, the Greek theatre had no stage at all. His arguments, richly enforced by plans and photographs upon the screen, were based in large part upon an examination of the remains of the Greek Dionysiac Theatre at Athens, the cradle, as it were, of the drama, where Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides were first brought out. In the earliest period there was only a simple, circular area; the spectators sat upon rows of wooden benches. To Aeschylus, near the beginning of the fifth century...