Word: dionysians
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...terms of musical technique the works exhibited Stravinsky's continuing "homage to Apollo." (". . . the Dionysian elements . . . must be properly subjugated before they intoxicate us, and must finally be made to submit to the law: Apollo demands it." he has written.) For the first time he has based complete movements and works upon a determined succession (or row) of tones; yet he does not necessarily use 12 tones in the row nor abandon a tonal center in the manner of Schoenberg...
...money for a decent road over the moors. Instead, Laxdale gets a personal visit from Mr. Pettigrew, a blue-nosed Labor M.P. who regards Highland life as the epitome of insanitary sloth. He brings a shapely wife, who admires his Penthean principles but turns to lustier men for her Dionysian pleasures. Along with the Pettigrews have come a varied bunch of visitors, including a novelist in flight from the tax collectors, a journalist, a Greek professor, a gang of salmon poachers. And it so happens that the laird's lovely daughter chooses this moment to stage a village production...
Spry or Sly? In the end, Linklater's Laxdalers have hopes of getting their road. But they have already got what Linklater feels is equally important-a Dionysian respite from the austerity of modern Scottish life. The minister waving his two-handed sword at the frenzied women symbolically expresses another of the morals of Laxdale Hall: Christianity itself becomes more vigorous when sinners are spry instead...
...series of lectures at Harvard in 1940 he tried to explain what he means: "The more art is controlled, limited, worked over, the more it is free . . . The Dionysian elements which set the imagination of the artist in motion . . . must be properly subjugated before they intoxicate us, and must finally be made to submit to the law: Apollo demands...
...Moscow hospital bed, Russia's Dionysian cinema genius Sergei Eisenstein rolled and roared with joy. The cause of his delight was the medical opinion that he was dead. He had died, according to doctors, during his celebration of the completion of Part II of his three-part chef-d'oeuvre, Ivan the Terrible. Dancing with a young girl had been too much for his heart and he had collapsed...