Word: bohemian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Berkeley (Calif.) Barb is an eight-to twelve-page weekly, less than a year old, with a circulation of 7,500. Says the Barb's bearded editor, Max Scherr, 50, a local bohemian of long standing: "I'm interested in all the little movements that are divergent from the mainstream of the culture." Scherr also admits-reluctantly-that sex and radical anti-Viet Nam articles are what sell his paper. Radical is the word. Wrote a Barb columnist known only as "The Roving Rat Fink," after President Johnson's recent speech in Omaha: "Never before...
MORGAN! An improper bohemian misfit (David Warner) goes ape and declares gorilla war on his former wife (Vanessa Redgrave) in a wayward British comedy that only occasionally gets out of hand...
...years after World War I, Colette harvested the peculiar fruit of her bohemian years. She wrote Mitsou, Chéri and La Fin de Chéri, and in these books finally found her own voice as a writer, a voice in which masculine force was suffused with feminine tenderness, and boulevardiering decadence with a wonderful country freshness. In her 50s she extended her mastery. Her ideas, her images became ever more exact and effective. "The dog lay down with a great rumble and thump that sounded like a bag of potatoes being emptied"-"At the windows hung some nasty...
Ingenuity of Indulgence. The new vitality of the city amazes both its visitors and inhabitants. "The planet which was England," confided Paris' Candide recently, "has given birth to a new art of living-eccentric, bohemian, simple and gay." Says Robert Fraser, owner of London's most pioneering art gallery: "Right now, London has something that New York used to have: everybody wants to be there. There's no place else. Paris is calcified. There's an indefinable thing about London that makes people want to go there...
That is of course assuming that the arty bohemian Adamsite really exists. Actually, more Adams graduates in the Class of '65 went to business school than from any other House. But there are still enough of the drama wonks, CRIMSON editors, and solitary swimmers to keep the fine House drama society (the most active at Harvard), the Oxbridgey library, assorted publications, and the unique House swimming pool going...