Word: bohemian
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...British Broadcasting Corp. caught a blast from fiery Conductor Sir Thomas Beecham when it offered him a picayunish fee of $60 for a broadcast of "his arrangement of Michael Balfe's The Bohemian Girl. The "arrangement," wrote Sir Thomas, already a bit edgy from an attack of gout, "has involved the thoughts of 25 years ... at no time and nowhere in the course of a long career have I received such a preposterously inadequate, thoughtlessly impudent and magnificently inept offer from anyone." Thoroughly singed by the explosion, an abashed BBC hastily made a "substantially higher" offer, and Sir Thomas...
...with his fists. One of his friends later recalled that "he would fight anyone-morning, noon and night, his brothers among the rest." Nothing in the boy suggested the conceit of the prodigy, and when he began writing verse a few years later, he assumed none of the pale, bohemian attitudes of the precious poet...
...huge gondola, a parrot perched on his shoulder, the words "fleur de misere" (flower of misery) printed in red across the chest of his heavy navy-blue sweater. At his daily teas, intellectuals and artists hobnobbed with petty thieves and guttersnipes, whom he had met during his bohemian wanderings...
...other two are basically interesting and charming towns, though it is hard to discern these characteristics behind a foreground of half-naked tentists. Princetown is particularly nice at this that of year, before strange characters and professional bohemian infest...
Picture on the Wall. Aymé writes about two families, the solid upper-class Lasquins and the bohemian middle-class Ancelots. M. Lasquin, a hard-working industrialist, falls dead at lunch one day, between the trout and the duck with orange sauce. The death is rather ill-timed, for the workers at his factory are restive. Who can take his place there? His son-in-law Pierre is the natural candidate, but Pierre cares nothing for industry and responsibility, or, for that matter, for his pretty young wife, Micheline. Pierre dreams of being a track star, keeps a picture...