Word: bohemianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. Rudolf Friml, 67, Bohemian-born composer of schmalzy light operas (The Vagabond King, Rose Marie, The Firefly); and Kay Ling, 39, his Chinese-American secretary; he for the fourth time, she for the first; in San Francisco...
Nothing but Color. In public, Cézanne was a granitic misanthrope who could snarl through his snarled beard: "Compared to me, my compatriots are asses. I detest them all." Privately, he was racked with self-doubt: "I am a timid man, a bohemian, and people laugh at me." Late in life, he confessed that his painting had "made some progress. Why so late and so painfully...
...Christopher Isherwood's tales of Berlin in 1930-a decadent city already loud with Naziism-the play uses young Chris himself as a camera eye. But what counts most are the very candid camera shots of an English girl named Sally Bowles-a bad little good girl, strenuously bohemian, ostentatiously wanton, spotted with living without really having been touched by life. Julie (Member of the Wedding) Harris plays Sally brilliantly, with amazing verve, and with a naughty-child air saves her from seeming nastily tarnished...
...youth (which lasted for a good many years), Manhattan-born Jo was a true-blue Bohemian expatriate. He lived on the cuff in Paris, plunged into new "movements" like a spaniel into water. He thought nothing of walking from Paris to Lucerne with Leaves of Grass and a Great Dane. He joined the Paris circle of Gertrude Stein ("There was an eternal quality about her"), and later portrayed her as a modern Buddha; in return, Gertrude made "a portrait of me in prose. When she read it aloud, I thought it was wonderful . . . But when I tried to read...
...looks and acts rather like a smaller replica of his idol, Diego Rivera. He has the same froggish frame and features, a similar instinct for gregarious, bohemian living. In his pockets, he usually carries a pen, pencils, paintbrushes, adhesive tape, wadded-up notes, neckties, socks, toothpaste and a list of telephone numbers. Thus equipped, he is ready to go anywhere and have a fine time (he once said: "I was born to go traveling around the world on an ostrich, but that could only be done in the 19th Century, when men had imagination and women's arms were...