Word: bohemianism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...McMillan Gallery was putting on a show of Picasso, Matisse and Braque, and proposed to have three unknown Americans exhibited with them. One was Willem de Kooning, another was Jackson Pollock, the third was Lee Krasner. At the time, Krasner was 32 and totally absorbed in the bohemian life...
...California he is befriended by a middle-class preacher who turns out to be a homosexual, Bullins's standard characterization of bourgeois male sexuality. After beating up the preacher, Steve moves to Watts and falls in with a Bohemian group of black students who share his romantic view of ghetto life as the novel comes full circle to the opening scene...
...parents went to college, and both emphasized the value of books and of experiences. Mayman describes her father, who died when she was 10 years old, as a "book-oriented, dashing Brazilian who wore white linen suits and silk shirts and who played polo." Her mother is "bohemian in a funny way," and has taught fencing and ballet. "My parents met while they were horseback riding, and were engaged in a week," Mayman said...
...most Johns Hopkins' homecomings, the old grads gather in the Lacrosse Hall of Fame, which is attached to the fieldhouse, guzzle National Bohemian beer and reminisce about the glory years, like 1932 when the Blue Jays won the Olympic lacrosse title in Los Angeles before a throng of 80,000. The beer was flowing as usual this year, but the talk was about Junior Jack Thomas, an All-America who is considered the school's most explosive scorer since Assistant Coach Joe Cowan starred for the old blue and black in the late 1960s...
However, the CPVA itself was very much opposed to the idea of the Harvard student as a bohemian artist creating freely in the studio. They felt something had to be taught. And they agreed with the Brown report that it should teach design principles...