Word: dionysians
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...first year following Thomas' death in Manhattan in 1953. Leftover Life to Kill will shock and infuriate some readers, make passionate partisans of others. The book's most remarkable quality is not its wild, keening dirge for the dead poet, but its revelation of the Dionysian personality and singing, Celtic eloquence of Irish-born Caitlin Thomas...
Kerr's episodic plot, eclipsing American history, is strung together by Barna-by Goodchild, a delightfully Dionysian scamp who, condemned to the stocks for frolicking while a Puritan, is liberated by Charity and wanders through the next three hundred years of American history. Goodchild's continuous reincarnation as a succession of American myth-men symbolizes the dynamic forces behind the building of America and his wanderings parallel the geographic expansion of the U.S.A...
...While Vera breeds Red Poll bulls on their Bucks County, Pa., farm, Tom holds a running bull session with, 1) the spirit of his rakehell father, 2) the voice of his moral and artistic conscience (it speaks in italics), 3) the bittersweet memories of expatriate days centering around a Dionysian, suicide-bent poet named Home Watts, who is clearly modeled on the late Hart Crane...
...Captain Michales gnashed his teeth." With this flat opening sentence, Greek Novelist Nikos Kazantzakis introduces his third memorable novel to reach U.S. readers in as many years. A pagan demiurge named Zorba goat-footed his Dionysian way through Zorba the Greek. In The Greek Passion, the peasant Manolios reenacted the Crucifixion as it might have happened in a 1920 Anatolian village. Captain Michales of Freedom or Death is a citizen soldier-patriot burning to set late 19th century Crete free from Turkish rule. These three heroes have nothing in common but the Kazantzakis touch-a gift for catching...
...Second and Skalkottas' Greek Dances], Maestro Mitropoulos was getting used to Athens' adulation. Said he: "I'm beginning to feel like Frank Sinatra." But the Greeks had some other words for it. Mitropoulos, one critic wrote, conducted "with an Olympian serenity that was both Apollonian and Dionysian...