Word: bohemianism
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...poet, journalist and orator, Muñoz Marin has combined high principles and shrewd politics to fashion a career that astonishes the friends and enemies who, only a few years ago, regarded him as dilettante, dreamer, revolutionary and bohemian. Muñoz is a husky, stoop-shouldered man with eloquent dark eyes, a big nose, a cleft chin and furrowed brow. Except when he is amused or surprised, his face has a kind of built-in sad-angry expression...
Over the years a legend has grown up that Muñoz was a spectacular bohemian in the turbulent Greenwich Village of the '20s. The fact is that he only lived in the Village a few months. Through much of his New York life he and his young wife -Muna Lee, another young poet-were bourgeois suburbanites...
Author Norman's story is a tale of Greenwich Village innocence, before Stalinism and Sartre, when, by his account, the villains were no worse than money-making poetasters, when there was lively talk in gay Bohemian cafés, and when a hero could stalk wrathfully from a meeting of the Poetry Association...
...composition instructor at the Juilliard School of Music, Peter finds that "if you lead a normal life, you have more time to compose." Anyway, he says, "to be bohemian is old hat." He and his violinist wife, Georganne, 24, whom he met at Eastman and married last year, manage to stay out of each other's artistic hair by dividing up their six-room apartment on Riverside Drive: he composes in a room at one end of the apartment while she practices in a room at the other...
...into the intrigues of Renaissance Italy and renders Greek myths in his own way; gives a long narrative of Chinese history and satirizes the visit to Europe of a lady from Kansas; comments on philosophical problems and wanders off into topical harangues. He loves to indulge in the old Bohemian game of scandalizing the bourgeoisie (he once wrote: "The thought of what America would be like/If the Classics had a wide circulation/ Troubles my sleep."). But though he is desperately eager to appear the European sophisticate, there is always in Pound's work a strong tinge of the small...