Word: elysium
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...powers. The Satyrs push the unwilling Bacchus into her arms, but he soon grows sated with her singing. "The only cure for excessive vocal production is immediate seduction," he says in an aside, and proceeds to administer treatment. A goddess intrudes and soon beguiles him back to Elysium. The disappointed Soprano is certain she can still have the mathematician, but he and the Satyrs mock her vocal advances. "Love is a sickness full of woe," they all agree, and the chorus, with upturned noses, murmurs, "We told...
...debilitating tropics, U.S. civil servants in the Panama Canal Zone have long enjoyed certain privileges. Among them: 25% pay differential, income-tax exemption, commissary rights and "recuperative" vacations of two months a year. These features have combined to make life in the isthmian strip a kind of welfare-state Elysium. But last week Elysium looked a little more like the good old U.S.A. Before leaving for its recess, Congress had enacted a law decreeing that the Zone's Government employees, like federal workers elsewhere, must pay regular income taxes. Unkindest cut of all for the Zonians...
...Dirt. One thing wrong with Americans, in Lewis' view, is that most of them fail to realize what a magnificent future they are building. Tied to petty, European standards of measurement, Americans keep thinking that they are a great nation, instead of "an advance copy" of the "rootless Elysium" that is to come. They worry because their cities are "irresponsible, dirty, corrupt," when in Lewis' opinion such conditions are "like nature," and therefore highly admirable. Americans even suspect their gregarious habits and glad-handedness, when, as Lewis sees it, they should be reveling in their "beautiful human impulse...
...Reinhardt in Berlin. They gave the production two notable Reinhardt touches. After Eurydice's funeral, the mountain wall which towers up behind the stage came alive with song; a chorus of 65 demons had been strung along its side. In the following scene, in which Orpheus arrives in Elysium, the theater's canvas roof was rolled back, revealing a starlit summer...
Passed By. Not until the depression was under way did most expatriates realize that their principal support in the elysium of Montparnasse was the moneyed America from which they had fled. The homeward trek began...