Word: bohemian
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That lyrical and nostalgic strain was amplified by Johannes Itten, the unlikely man Gropius first picked to teach the entry course. A vegetarian, Zoroastrian and state-of-the-art bohemian, Itten knew more about yoga than he did about factory floors. In the years when he set the tone for much of what the school produced, the would-be school of industrial art could seem more like a hippie craft shop. A product of the Bauhaus could be a hand-thrown pot or a funky hand-carved chair...
...yearning for a universe of reason and order that those right angles symbolized at a time when Germany was gradually going insane. By the mid-1920s, the Bauhaus was under steady pressure from the conservative government of Thuringia, which funded the school but regarded it as a left-wing, bohemian swindle. When the provincial legislature stopped paying faculty salaries in 1925, the Bauhaus relocated to the more welcoming industrial city of Dessau, where it eventually occupied its famously forward-looking new building designed by Gropius. But a few years later, he stepped down as director in frustration over continuing pressure...
...Moved to Sarajevo to study medicine in 1960. Karadzic took up the bohemian lifestyle, writing poetry and mingling with writers and artists while living in ethnically mixed Sarajevo. In 1967 he met Dobrica Cosic, a Serbian writer and politician, who urged Karadzic to become politically active...
...eloquent and a bit strange, like a true bohemian." - Goran Kojic, editor of Belgrade magazine Healthy Life, on being fooled by Karadzic's disguise as a New Age healer. Karadzic freelanced for the publication while hiding from authorities. (AP, July...
Indeed, would-be writers have it particularly tough. One-time Greenwich studios now house upper-middle-class families; bohemian standby Village Voice has been bought out by New Times Media; college interns willing to work unpaid edge out older degree-holding peers insistent on a wage. Many successful journalists break into the business outside the Big Apple—either cub reporting at small-town papers or finding jobs abroad...