Word: bohemianism
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...ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding..." In an age of specialization, these are the bohemian specialists in dissipation...
...develop very far; while at the same time so much overt anger must shut the door on irony. Having shown how angry Jimmy can be, the play chiefly thereafter shows how personally irresistible he is. Perhaps a little concentration on human plight would have helped: it cuts deeper than Bohemian mess...
...scampish Bohemian who dressed like a gypsy, sported a wide-brimmed hat and passed himself off as a guitarrista, Manolo boasted that he "knew all the thieves of my time." No one doubted his word. The illegitimate son of a proud Spanish officer, he was urged to make the army his career; instead, he deserted when he was drafted, hid out in Barcelona with gypsies, petty thieves and the hungry artists who met at the IV Gats café. On the side he studied painting and sculpture...
...town. To get in the mood for his methodical 9-to-5 workday, Caldwell simply pulls down the shades to shut out the magnificent view. In the evenings Caldwell and his fourth wife dine out, often at Trader Henri's, a favored hangout of the beard-and-sandal Bohemian set. Says Caldwell: "I don't go for the atmosphere, I go for the hard liquor...
...allied but not so product-minded group is the bohemian circle. While the artist spends considerable time suffering so he might be happy eventually, the bohemian can be happy all the time so long as he presents a miserable exterior. There are hundreds of these lonely aesthetics and they have arranged certain ways of dress and speech (not to mention thought) which are well accepted and, at the same time, different...