Word: bohemianism
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Today Poetry's editorial desk is in an office on Erie Street, the Bohemian fringe of the Gold Coast. Harriet Monroe's desk is shared by two poets whom she "discovered" when they were undergraduates: Marion Strobel, a youngish (52), energetic grandmother who coaxe? subsidies for Poetry from well-to-do friends of her socially prominent doctor-husband, and writes whodunits in her spare time; and tall, handsome George Dillon, 40, an elusive bachelor who won a 1932 Pulitzer Prize for a volume of lyrics (The Flowering Stone...
...Bohemian Glass...
...awards have been made this year of the Jeremy Belknap, Bohemian Club, Francis Boott, Circolo Italiano, Louis Curtis, Dante, Harvard Monthly, George Arthur Knight, and Ruskin Prizes, nor of the first prize in the Susan B. Anthony award in Comparative Literature...
...Homestretch (20th Century-Fox) canters in Technicolor through the not particularly fascinating vicissitudes of a raffish racing man (Cornel Wilde), his Back Bay bride (Maureen O'Hara) and his somewhat Bohemian girl friend (Helen Walker). Miss O'Hara wants Wilde to settle down and stop living out of Miss Walker's pocket; she also tends to misunderstand the free-&-easy way these old friends kiss each other...
...means of its prospective culture crop than it is with the dollars that will accompany it. The success of this program in future years will depend in large measure on the intentions demonstrated by the present group seeking overseas education. By neglecting their scholastic objectives in favor of more bohemian ones, they can quickly transform a good thing into a tragic free-for-all, to the disadvantage of both French universities and well-intentioned students. Only the earnest need apply...