dionysiac

• In general, increase of the productive powers of labor requires an increase of relative physical-capital intensity, as well as scientific-technological intensity, including improved qualities and degrees of education, and including greater required emphasis on Classical forms of culture, rather than dionysiac revels. —  LaRouche's Latest
• Between him and Debussy there is the difference between the apollonian and the dionysiac, between the smooth, level, contained, perfect, and the darker, more turbulent, passionate, and instinctive. —  Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers
• It should be emphasized here, that the mass-base of support which Prince Philip's planned genocide had gained inside the U.S.A. during the course of the recent forty years, had been found, chiefly among the so-called "68ers," such as those notoriously dionysiac, often drugged rioters, who erupted, as the second Columbia University campus "strike" of that year did, emerging from their Satanic pits during the Spring, Summer, and Autumn of the period following the March 1, —  LaRouche's Latest
• If there is a single modern orchestral work that can be compared to either of the two great ballets of Strawinsky for rhythmical vitality, it is "Daphnis et Chloé," with its flaming dionysiac pulses, its "pipes and timbrels," its wild ecstasy. —  Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers

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