Word: bohemian
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...sprung not from literary ambition but from a wish to amuse a few intimates. Said Mann: "Late in life, when a writer realizes that he is producing what is called 'art,' he tends to break off his contacts with society and turn into an isolated Bohemian. It takes decades to realize that . . . one has oneself become an integral and not altogether uninfluential part of [society...
...Picasso into letting her get the first pictures of his Antibes paintings, headed straight for Barcelona. The pictures of the early Picassos and the family apartment, published last week in L'Oeil, add up to some unexpectedly offbeat and unknown Picasso art, plus a fascinating introduction to the bohemian Barcelona branch of the Picasso family. "Come at 11." Telephoning for an appointment at the Barcelona apartment, Editor Bernier got a surprising answer: "Come at 11 tonight." Once inside, she found herself plunged into the world of a gypsy encampment. "The lights burn out all the time here," Picasso...
Even after the German armies capitulated in World War II, a fanatic Wehrmacht general, commanding a force of last-ditch Nazis, held out against the Russians in a Bohemian mountain redoubt. Field Marshal Ferdinand Schorner, 62, had been named by Hitler to succeed him as commander-in-chief of the German army; in the Fuhrer's last testament his name ranked sixth.* In pursuance of the dead Fuhrer's wishes, Schorner went on fighting, ruthlessly killing hundreds of his own men who resisted the futile slaughter. He finally deserted his outfit disguised as a Tyrolean peasant, gave himself...
...Flowering Peach (by Clifford Odets) tells, very much in its own way, the story of Noah. His scene a kind of historical no man's land-so long as there is any land-Odets chronicles a family whose habits and dress seem less Biblical than bohemian and who, with their slangy ways, seem more modern than ancient...
...Bites Deep. Voluble as can be when arguing whether a bird is a Bohemian or a cedar waxwing, birders become strangely inarticulate when pressed to explain their sport. They have no simple motto like the Everest climbers' "Because it is there." They usually mumble something about liking birds since childhood, or about the thrill of hunting without its element of cruelty, or just the great outdoors. Whatever its origin, the birding bug bites deep. Wives picture themselves dolefully as "birding widows." A golfer trying to wave his ball into the cup for an eagle at the 18th hole when...