Word: bohemian
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...wealthy old skate who lays out plenty of silver to keep Son Horst from nipping off. She offers him an Austin-Healey, a luxuriantly upholstered housemaid ("or find a nice married woman in your own world"), and cold cash. Horst uses the money to set himself up as a bohemian artist in Rome, but he can't fill his life or his canvas because "there is nothing worth painting." Ultimately, he finds redemption through fleshly enslavement to Catherine, an amoral part-time model and fulltime hetaera who makes him feel love, jealousy and suicidal impulses. This, of course, means...
Like other young writers of his era, Lewis enjoyed bohemian Paris for a few years, but he was hardly rebelling against his parents. He kept his mother, who was back in London, well informed of his escapades. Could his mother find a "nice, peaceful" cottage for a friend who was on the lam after shooting a man in a bar? Could his mother, please, come to Paris for a couple of weeks to get his mistress out of his hair? "I've come to that stage where I positively hate the sight of her, and I think we could...
They fell in with a bohemian group of intellectuals led by Hazel Hawthorne, whom Fred describes as "one of the original beats," and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana, a somewhat leftish drama professor at Columbia and Harvard. Dana subsidized Cheever modestly, and Hazel took him to Provincetown to visit the famed Playhouse. He was already keeping the meticulous diary in which he accumulated the incidents, sights, smells and thoughts that are the raw material for his books. Cheever even then seemed to have an infinite capacity for wonder, was constantly fascinated with how close reality came to the fantastic. He began...
...Anna, a brief intermezzo, Sophia plays a rich bitch who tries to persuade her bohemian lover that she doesn't care a fig for her husband's filthy lucre and all the disgusting bourgeois things it can buy. Like, say, the Rolls-Royce they are riding in. "Here, take the wheel," she announces grandly. "I don't care. I love you." Maybe so. But by a strange coincidence the affair ends up on the rocks when the car ends up in a ditch...
Schwabing's broad, cafe-lined Leopoldstrasse also throngs with students from Ludwig-Maximilian's University, Germany's largest, with 22,000 enrollment. In bohemian bistros like the See-rose, where Kandinsky once caroused, the talk runs the gamut from Johnson (Uwe) to Johnson (Lyndon), while the beer flows on and on. But unlike the emaciated, hollow-eyed beatniks of Paris and New York, Munich's young bohemians exude a ruddy outdoor glow...