Word: bohemianism
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...exhibition catalogue, Museum Director of Painting and Sculpture Andrew Ritchie collared Demuth with a string of adjectives: "Elegant, witty, frivolous, dandified, shy, gentle, kind, amusing." The painter was also lame, and long ill with the diabetes which killed him at 52. A bit of a bohemian in his excursions to Greenwich Village and Montparnasse, he never stayed away from Lancaster long. Bachelor Demuth was "sheltered as a child and as a man," wrote Ritchie, "by an extraordinarily robust mother...
...tiny Bohemian village of Cihost, in the hills southeast of Prague, flax farmers and woodcutters last week were whispering excitedly. They were discussing the new "miracles" and the trouble which had followed them...
Marguerite Steen or a Taylor Caldwell. Yet Author du Maurier, soap her bohemian loofah as she may, fails to froth up a single sud of glamour or blow one bubble of poignant sadness. Even the title she has chosen suggests that Author du Maurier may have felt like apologizing a bit for having run so much bath water to so little purpose...
...irascible bohemian lost no time in arguing with his publisher (over money) and severing connections. He supported himself by teaching English in provincial schools (and later by lecturing on English literature at the Imperial University in Tokyo), married a Japanese girl and became a citizen. Besides his wife and their four children, he supported his wife's entire family, found himself so busy he had little time to complain about life anymore. He taught all day, wrote most of the night. His subject for his last 14 years: Japan...
...Titian and Veronese. Their paintings strengthened his like a blood transfusion, flooding his pictures with dark, rich colors and dignifying their shadowed backgrounds with glimpses of formal gardens, pillars and balustrades. With his liveried servants and coach & four, Van Dyck earned nothing but sneers from Rome's bohemian painters. But his manners as well as his brush charmed...