Word: bohemian
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Wolfe like to play the waif a little bit, and there is certainly enough instinctive vulnerability in his personal make-up to give credence to the "Tom Sawyer" haircut. Describing a female jazz pianist for whom he briefly led the life of a "prole-bohemian," he said, "I think she was basically interested in me as a Yale grad student. Love should be devoid of status factors, but of course it never is. Yes." The experience of manual labor left him with the conviction that there is no wisdom in the common man. He has never voted, and thinks politics...
...CROWD (Argo) that collects around the solidly welded, ten-year-old Ramsey Lewis trio is quite a sizable mob. This LP, recorded live at the Bohemian Caverns in Washington, D.C., has soared up the pop charts, past such rock 'n' run regulars as the Rolling Stones and Herman's Hermits. The title song has the usu al rocking beat, but Pianist Lewis also dispenses old-fashioned swing, bland harmonies and light-fingered embellishments in such well-worth-repeating pieces as Duke Ellington's Come Sunday and Buddy Johnson's Since I fell...
...Hall Tharp. Isabella Stewart Gardner was one Boston dowager who sensed the possibilities of an impregnable social position: with Bernard Berenson at her elbow she shopped Europe for a great art collection and used the Back Bay as a theater in which she played roles from Persian princess to Bohemian girl. A very readable biography...
...Tharp. Isabella Stewart Gardner was one Boston dowager who sensed the possibilities of an impregnable social position: with Bernard Berenson at her elbow she shopped Europe for a great art collection and used the Back Bay as a theater in which she played roles from Persian princess to the Bohemian girl. A very readable biography...
...reach Fifth Avenue drawing rooms. Pale beyond the pale and shy to the point of sequestration, he arrived in New York at the age of 24 as a struggling artist with little training and less money. Gradually he earned enough through advertising illustration to eke out a comfortable bohemian existence on the Lower East Side. When the art world suddenly went pop in 1962, Andy found himself lionized by the white-tie world of the Museum of Modern Art. But he cut few social capers, clung to the company of fellow artists...