Word: bohemianism
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...Over the centuries, many groups upheld this view (as against infant baptism, which became generally accepted in Christendom), among them the 3rd century Donatists, some of the 12th century Petrobrusians and Waldensians, the 15th century Bohemian Brethren. It was not until the Reformation that the issue really became heated, with the rise in the 16th century of the Anabaptists (literally, Re-Baptizers), a collection of sects that all opposed the baptism of infants, but that also opposed, variously, oaths, military service and the holding of public office. The sects were ruthlessly put down, but some (the Mennonites and Hutterites) regained...
...41st chair," reserved by legend for those who never made the grade, has been occupied by such greats as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, whose loose living and houseful of illegitimate children were too much for the academicians; Encyclopedist Denis Diderot, who was a deal too outspoken; and plump, ill-dressed, Bohemian Honoré de Balzac, who seemed just too much of a mess...
Lowell House will retaliate in the last week of April with a production of Smetana's "The Bartered Bride," a nineteenth century Czech gala spectacle. Musical director Howard M. Brown describes the opera as a "Bohemian Gilbert and Sullivan" executed in the old European grand manner. Producer John H. Poppy '57 is planning for a cast of 70, supported by 60 student musicians...
...Wouk denies taking stands for or against anything, but the evidence of the books contradicts him. There is an indictment in The Caine Mutiny-not, ultimately, of Queeg, the maniacal martinet, but of Keefer, the phony intellectual. There is an indictment in Marjorie Morningstar-of Noel Airman, the restless Bohemian...
...also began brewing Budweiser after a tour of Europe. According to the apocryphal story, Adolphus got the secret formula of the famed brew of a monastery. Actually, he developed the formula with Carl Conrad, a St. Louis restaurateur, tried to match the light beer he found in the Bohemian town of Budweis. He felt that it would become more popular in the U.S. than the heavy beer then being made. He was the first big brewer to perfect refrigerated railroad cars, thus opening vast new markets in the South, installed the first pasteurization process for beer. In 1879 the name...