Word: rabelaisian
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...joke" department of the Journal. Its anecdotes, puns, poems, "miscellany, " all occasionally rabelaisian, disclose one of a doctor's interests whIch his patients rarely discern...
...after the first Metropolitan hearing in Manhattan. But victrola records were allowed to popularize the "Dance of the Seven Veils"- and in Europe the opera at once took front rank. Followed Elektra, whose unpleasant theme, being classic, caused less offense; then Der Rosencavalier, an entirely new departure in its Rabelaisian farce of both libretto and score (the libretto had to be cut for virtuous Manhattan). Der Rosencavalier, with its infectious burlesque, wit and sparkle, stays his best liked opera, perhaps his best to date...
...book, his presence broods over the opening scene. A vast, shaggy, Rabelaisian music master, he has fled England and wandered through Europe accumulating wives, mistresses, children, disciples, renown. He has at last brought them all, "Sanger's Circus," to a sprawling chalet in the Austrian Tyrol. There, shut away with his boar hound, he is dying. His nubile daughters live in an abandon of cultured savagery, vivid but slatternly mixtures of profundity and ignorance...
Realism. "His diaries are full of Rabelaisian details, the manure and realism of the stock-breeder's life, the amours of mares, the matings and misalliances of hounds whose pups he kills or saves...
Diaries full of Rabelaisian details...