Word: bohemianism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL, by Kenneth Rexroth. A novel it is not, but it is a novel autobiography of an old bohemian, who describes with much wit and some wisdom the anarchists, pacifists, ragged Utopians and ordinary cranks he encountered during a freewheeling life...
Amid eroding plaster and stacked-up cardboard cartons live two newlywedded bohemian idiots, young free-spirited disasters of innocence and honesty. He, execrably played by Beau Bridges, and she, execrably played by Barbara Dana, are about to become parents in name only. Their immediate life plan consists of divorce for themselves, adoption for their unborn child. In intellectual hock to his psychoanalyst, Beau has convinced Barbara that he and she are emotionally unready for parenthood. A hotter squarehead prevails. Hiram Sherman is a proper-minded homosexual, more censorious than Cato the Elder. He has raised Beau since...
Ironically, the tearful Marylyn Painter sounded practically lowan. "We love our home," she said. "We've sewed curtains and fixed Mark's room. We're quiet people. We watch TV, baby-sit for friends, play chess. I do play the guitar -that sounds bohemian, I guess...
...have to give up their kids. I don't drive a hay wagon, I don't go to church on Sunday, I don't grow corn in my backyard, and I've never voted for McKinley. This, in the eyes of Iowa, makes me a bohemian...
Today, he is the Last Bohemian, a conformist who chose to cleave to a tradition of dissent. Rexroth has some thing like Chamber of Commerce status in San Francisco, safely beached on the shore where the last wave of American radicalism washed up. He is a legend as poet, horse wrangler, hobo, perpetual avant-gardesman, painter, and finally, at 60, Grand Old Man of what used to be called the Youth Racket...