Word: bohemianism
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Many of Connell's tales turn on the conflict between Bohemian and Philistine. What is refreshing about them is that the cards never seem stacked on one side or the other. His Philistine realizes that a magic has gone out of his life, that "things were different now. The winged seeds that gyrate down from the trees now mean nothing else but that we must sweep them from the automobile hood because stains on the finish lower the trade-in value." And his bohemian is intelligent enough to recognize and be shamed by his own posing. At the peak...
...Poland became Catholic to avoid being gobbled up. When the pagan Polish ruler Mieszko I was attacked A.D. 963 by Saxon Warlord Count Wichman, Mieszko cannily guessed that this early German Drang nach Osten would disguise itself as a Christian missionary enterprise. To undercut this excuse, he married a Bohemian Catholic princess, took himself and country to the Church of Rome in 966. The office of primate, which in many countries degenerated into a mere courtesy title, remained in Poland (as in Hungary) a potent center of temporal power and political leverage. When the throne was vacant, the primate...
Satirizing young maidens rapturous over the most bohemian and "aesthetic" of poets, the play doesn't seem ill at home in the Harvard community. Alison Keith is a real show-stopper as the aging, but still amorous devotee of the pseudo-poet. She has a real talent for comic gesture and routine with just the proper bit of stylization, and wondrous to say, she has a very fine voice. Elizabeth MacNeil, play the title role of Patience, a much-sought-after milkmaid, sings well and liltingly, but her acting seems the weakest among the principals. Perhaps this is just...
...last year at Winthrop since he, the last of the original house masters, is retiring at the completion of this semester. David E. Owen, professor of History, in whom Master Ferry expresses sincere confidence, will oversee Winthrop beginning next fall. Owen will note that although there exist few pseudo-bohemian sorts, most types are represented among the Winthrop members. The average Winthrop Man is pleased with his challenging and diversified association with his House, which allows him an allegiance while never imposing on his privacy as an individual...
...peasant Hussites formed their own group and called it Unitas Fratrum-Unity of the Brethren-the official title of the Moravian Church today. By the end of the 16th century, the Brethren were the dominant Protestant church in Bohemia. But after the Thirty Years' War broke out, the Bohemian Protestants were routed by the Catholics; on June 21, 1621, no fewer than 15 leaders of the Brethren were beheaded. The group went underground and stayed there for 100 years. Moravians know this as the time of "The Hidden Seed...