Word: bohemia
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...McThing has plenty of wacky motivations and a fair number of funny moments. It pries open the mind and pleads the cause of childhood, and, by contrasting old-maid tea parties with raffish mobster quadrilles, pleads the cause of bohemia, too. It also lets Helen Hayes go on an expert binge of bit-part shenanigans...
Acquitted this week, he did not seem particularly disconcerted by his misadventure. Everybody seemed to feel sorry for Bodenheim but Bodenheim. "The Village," he said, "used to have a spirit of Bohemia, gaiety, sadness, beauty, poetry . . . Now it's just a geographical location." But as he hustled back to the San Remo bar, he acted as though he thought he might save it from mediocrity still...
...weather and character. She has observed the manners of drug clerks, the delights of walking Manhattan streets ("rich and tender with neon") on a spring night, the friendly chaos of lower Manhattan life. She has an especially good eye for the Gramercy Park neighborhood, that sedate mixture of mild Bohemia and dusty elegance, with poverty just a step away...
...Nazi boss of Czechoslovakia. The Nazis shot all of the village's 175 men, sent its women to concentration camps, demolished its houses. The Czechs did not forget Lidice. At war's end, they tracked down the "Butcher of Lidice," Karl Herman Frank, former Nazi protector of Bohemia and Moravia, hanged him with six of his Gestapo henchmen...
...against humanity," received a quick trial and death sentences. Recently brought from Russia, they were: Nazi staff Officer Friedrich Gottschalk, Gestapoman Walter Richter, and SS (Elite Guard) Generals Ernst Hitzegrad, Richard Schmidt and Max Rozstock. Three women survivors of Lidice identified Rozstock, former chief of Nazi security in Kladno, Bohemia, as the man who directed the destruction of Lidice. Unexplained: why the Russians waited so long...