Word: dionysus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...19th Century romantic composers except Tchaikovsky and Beethoven, who "was such a tremendous individual." He regards Wagner and his "heroic hardware" as "shamelessly sensual." Stravinsky has taken up arms in a battle as old as art, between the followers of Apollo (art from order and religiously hard work) and Dionysus (art from ecstasy). Stravinsky has ranged himself on Apollo's team...
...Evoe! Evoe! Dionysus!" Inhabitants of the haughty International Settlement regarded the Mission area at South Gate as a cross between the frontier and a zoo. The so-called "honey-boats" drifted slowly down the neighboring canal, carrying Shanghai's human excrement to the truck farms. The dusty road was always filled with grunting pigs on their way to slaughter. Under the willow trees old Chinese lay dozing, waiting for their daily lunch of sparrows to get stuck on the bird-limed twigs...
There were the usual Occidental eccentrics - British Miss Roder, who spent most of her time washing off Chinese contamination in boracic acid; American Mrs. Sedley, who believed she was "the nymph of the spring" and danced around a water hole in nightgown and flowers, crying: "Evoe! Evoe! Dionysus, Dionysus...
...squads of servants, instructors and tutors for his son and two daughters. In his Florentine study were two desks: one with a typewriter; the other with a quill pen for the abstruse, elegant poetry he liked to write but seldom sold (only two volumes were published: The Village Street, Dionysus in Hades...