Word: bohemianism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bitter following the Townsend bust-up, and seemed intent on getting even by finding a partner whose marital status was suitable but who conspicuously lacked the usual aristocratic Establishment credentials. For this scenario, Tony Armstrong-Jones seemed perfect: well-enough educated (Eton, Cambridge) but more than a little bohemian, a trendy, fast-living commoner who dared to court Margaret by inviting her-so friends said-to a balconied flat he had rented overlooking the Thames docks in south London...
...report in the history of science. In exhaustive--and exhausting--detail, we follow Skinner through a curious childhood and a lonely, almost morose, adolescence in a drab Pennsylvania town. Skinner recounts Kollege Kid pranks and personality molding teachers at Hamilton College, a year as a struggling writer, and a bohemian period in Greenwich Village...
...declared independence. They suffered from what Taylor describes as "a distinct lack of money." But lately Queen's fortunes have been rising fast. Under the guidance of Manager John Reid, 26, who also handles Elton John, Queen has become the monarch of British rock. A few weeks ago, Bohemian Rhapsody, a six-minute cut that mingles introspection with Gilbert and Sullivan operatics, hit the top of the British music charts. Queen's fourth LP, A Night At The Opera (Elektra), has passed the million-seller mark worldwide. Last week the group began a six-week tour...
...STORY MIGHT READ BETTER as a novel, opening as it does with a scene that Sinclair Lewis would have loved: the meeting of the University of California Board of Regents, fresh from mint juleps at San Francisco's Bohemian and Pacific Union Clubs, with at least 10 millionaires out of 24 discussing whether they should raise tuition by a total of $4 million for the 1971-72 academic year. The scene is jolly--the men are "radiant as ten suns." Lewis might have said--and the tuition increase in passed. These men, and two women, don't worry about students...
...dress-cloaks, Carlyle-size black hats, gold earrings-he boozed and philandered his way through every level of English society. He was a licensed vertical invader, conspicuous even in the notable roster of Edwardian eccentrics that stretched from the Cafe Royal to Bloomsbury. There had of course been English bohemians before, but none had seemed so obstreperously life-enhancing as Augustus John. As Michael Holroyd observes in this superb biography, "In the public imagination he was to represent the Great Artist, the Great Lover, the Great Bohemian Enjoyer of Life. It was a cruelly ironic comment on his actual career...