Word: satyrs
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...Fritz Weaver) is a pedant who sprinkles even casual conversation with chalk dust. On Roger's sabbatical, the Merediths flee New York for a Tennessee farm. But while Roger is examining constitutional law, Libby sets to work fracturing some commandments. For lurking in the barn is the local satyr, Will Cade (Anthony Quinn). "I'm a grandmother," protests Libby at first. "There's a lot of woman left in ya," grunts Will...
...decline was quite similar to our world today," he insists. "There was the same fury of enjoying life, the same lack of moral principles and ideologies, and the same complacency. Today we are finished with the Christian myth and await a new one. There is analogy in Satyr-icon." But history, unlike jurisprudence, is not always based on precedent. It is, in Valéry's term, "the science of what never happens twice...
...majestic predecessors-especially Beethoven and Wagner-struggling miserably with their grandiose inheritance but succeeding only in repeating the great men's first thoughts, and eventually making a cult of lamentation out of their own shortcomings. Thomas Mann described this period of apparent artistic desperation and extravagance as the miserable satyr play of a smaller time. This business of post-romantic it self is a continuously evolving, because imperishable, force in music. The post-romantic period was a continuation of the nineteenth-century attempts to fuse literature and music in the creation of a more ardent poeticism and evocative drama...
...weary wav homeward, and William Blake deplored the "dark satanic mills" that despoiled England's green and pleasant land. But most of Constable's contemporaries were concerned, as Constable often complained, with "the elevated and noble walks of art, i.e., preferring the shaggy posterior of a satyr to the moral feeling of landscape...
...Madigan is a truly realistic film, complemented by Siegel's lean, often tough, style. Occasional spurts of fast cutting, Madigan intimidating a suspect and the final gun battle, are doubly powerful because of the stylistic restraint in the preceding scenes. Steve Ihnat's high-style performance as a psychopathic satyr is a welcome change from the suave ruthlessness of Aspic's urbane spies...