Word: bohemianism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Homestretch (20th Century-Fox) canters in Technicolor through the not particularly fascinating vicissitudes of a raffish racing man (Cornel Wilde), his Back Bay bride (Maureen O'Hara) and his somewhat Bohemian girl friend (Helen Walker). Miss O'Hara wants Wilde to settle down and stop living out of Miss Walker's pocket; she also tends to misunderstand the free-&-easy way these old friends kiss each other...
...means of its prospective culture crop than it is with the dollars that will accompany it. The success of this program in future years will depend in large measure on the intentions demonstrated by the present group seeking overseas education. By neglecting their scholastic objectives in favor of more bohemian ones, they can quickly transform a good thing into a tragic free-for-all, to the disadvantage of both French universities and well-intentioned students. Only the earnest need apply...
Pascal was indignant. In his 16 years as a waiter at the Café de Flore, in Paris' bohemian Latin Quarter, Pascal had heard more crackpot talk about art, letters and life than a hundred ordinary men hear in a lifetime. For Pascal, most of it went in one ear and out the other. But he remembered that last year there was a haze of glory around the Café de Flore, when Existentialism was in its first febrile flower. Jean-Paul Sartre, the wall-eyed little founder of Existentialism, and his disciples jabbered nightly at the Flore. Admiring...
...some way which Pascal could not quite fathom, the bohemian tradition was being betrayed. It was a tradition epitomized, in the Left Bank's 19th Century heyday, by Author Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, who used to lead a live lobster around on a leash. "He does not bark," Barbey solemnly explained, "and he has the wisdom...
...modern, stylishly bohemian society in which it is set, this naughty old story (from Louis Verneuil's moth-eaten play, Jealousy, recently revived on Broadway as Obsession) seems doubly ridiculous. It is impossible to believe that 1) Bette would try to conceal her past, or 2) Henreid could be deceived for a minute...