Word: lenten
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have been Munich's gaudiest, bawdiest Fasching ever. In preparation for the pre-Lenten bacchanal that traditionally enlivens the gray Bavarian midwinter, scores of halls had been decorated with tinfoil, blinking lights, papier-mache figures of fun, and corners intentionally left dark. No fewer than seven carnival princes and princesses had been named, complete with courts and shapely girl guards. All was ready for Milnchner to abandon themselves, as they always had, to a month of drinking, swiving-judges do not consider adultery grounds for divorce during Fasching-and foolery unequaled anywhere else in Europe...
...Catholic who frowned on the decline of Lenten fasting, he justified cultivation of the senses as the divine right of man as lord of nature. "It is for him that the quail fattens, for him that mocha has so sweet a perfume," he observed simply. It followed naturally that gourmandism should be neither gluttony nor voracity but "the impassioned, considered and habitual preference for whatever pleases the taste...
Poignant Atrocity. The morbid embrace is but one flash in a carnival of images on the single Lenten theme with which lonesco and Director Karl Heinz Stroux hold the audience alternately uneasy and tittering for two unbroken hours. Death, along with madness, is the heartland of the absurd today, recalling how, three and four centuries ago, the dance of death, along with the ship of fools, was the obsession of so much European painting and writing. For The Triumph of Death, lonesco reaches not only to Albert Camus, but also back to the Bruegel painting that bears the same title...