Word: bohemianism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anguished protest poem Howl ("I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness . . .") set the stage for the Beat scene. Since then, often unwashed yet somehow steeped in cleansing waves of culture, sometimes naked but never far removed from the whole cloth of bohemian and Brahman tradition, Allen Ginsberg has gained celebrity not only as a poet but as a practicing pansexualist and pioneer in psychedelia. He has also preached all manner of revolutionary activities that could lead to the overthrow of what he considers society's "hallucination" regarding money and power...
...postcard-picturesque county seat, Taos (pop. 3,500) has weathered older if less disruptive migrations. Its primitive charm and unassailable isolation have made it a magnet since the 1890s for hundreds of bohemian writers and artists. One of the first hippies to come was D. H. Lawrence, whose ranch and grave near by have been turned into a literary shrine. Swarms of tourists followed those early migrants, and Taos County now boasts ski resorts, art galleries and countless souvenir shops...
...observation of outsiders from inside. He is a Scotsman born in London, reared in Australia. His mother was Novelist Angela Thirkell. Maclnnes escaped Australia and a law scholarship in 1930 at 16, spent five years in Brussels, a businessman by grace of a family connection, but by nature a bohemian who spent much of his time "consorting with writers, painters, musicians." For three years in London he studied painting, "until I was rescued by the army." After the war, he joined BBC Radio and began to write...
...destined to become France's next husband, the marriage will be a far cry from its mystical union with De Gaulle. "Life must be allowed to come to you," he is fond of saying, and in his 57 years life has come well and often to Pompidou. Brilliant, somewhat bohemian, and always radiating bonhomie, he has succeeded in whatever he tried, including four distinctly diverse careers. To French politics he has brought the cultivation of a classics scholar (including 10,000 lines of French poetry that he can quote from memory), the logic of a legal expert and the savvy...
...subsequent entry into rock, which so scandalized the folk fans at Newport, was the logical, and inevitable, outcome of a deep-seated movement in that direction. Nevertheless, it is clear that Dylan emerged considerably enriched from his experience in folk-music. In the first place, the free and bohemian atmosphere of the folk-world allowed, if it didn't encourage, Dylan to develop his own unorthodox singing style, in all the expressive glory of its distorted, flat phrasing...