Word: bohemianism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London, hairy old British Portraitist Augustus John, incorrigible bohemian, foe of the Royal Academy, glared at an exhibition of landscapes by his daughter, Vivien, then bought another artist's painting in the same show. Asked his opinion of his daughter's work, he snorted: "Rubbish...
Scrawny, Negrophilous, bohemian Lady Nancy Cunard, of the British shipping family, persistently blocked from leftist wartime work in Paris, finally became exasperated, shrilled at nagging critics: "Do you realize that you are talking to the representative of 56 world-wide Negro newspapers...
Bismarck once said: "Whoever is master of Bohemia is master of Europe." What he meant to say was that so long as Germany controlled the Bohemian bastion it would be relatively easy to keep invaders from the east from carrying warfare into the South German Basin or out on to the north German reaches of the Baltic plain. Similarly, command of the heights on either side of the Rhine has a lot to do with whether a war between Germany and France is to be fought in front of Munich or in front of Paris...
...Street and at playwriting, married, divorced and remarried, turned to the expensive indoor sport of sculpture. He put on seven shows, drew from the puzzled critics only such faint praise as "decadent, exotic, bizarre, sensational." In 1914 Sculptor Clews left Manhattan with silent dignity for Paris, the haven of Bohemian expatriates...
...visible result of his visit was the closing (after powwows with Protector Baron Constantin von Neurath, Sudeten Leader Karl Hermann Frank) of the Bohemian and Moravian frontiers, the outlawing of all strikes and lockouts...