Word: bohemianism
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...literary lion of Paris bounced into Manhattan last week for a brief lecture tour (stops at Yale, Harvard, Princeton). He put up at a genteel midtown hotel-partly because he could find no other lodging, partly because it did not matter: he has a bohemian preference for unpretentious surroundings; in Paris, the literary lion makes his den in the dingy, unheated Hotel Louisiane. Few Americans had heard even vaguely of earnest, ebullient Jean-Paul Sartre, novelist, playwright, essayist and prophet of the philosophy of life known as "Existentialism." But more were likely to become aware of him and his message...
...unknown professor of philosophy (1930-43). During the war he spent nine months in a German war prison, then emerged to play an active role in the Resistance (he served with the Communist-dominated Front National). Now he is France's most discussed writer: his temple, the respectably bohemian Cafe de Flore on the Left Bank. There he spends most of his writing and preaching day. Simultaneously he works on a philosophic book, a play, a novel, a host of articles...
...year when Chamberlain waved his umbrella, crying "Peace in our time"-an unknown young woman was writing radio scripts, in Chicago. Her name was Craig Rice and she was all of 30. To her the era of peace just ending had meant a dozen years of bohemian life: three bungled attempts at marriage; innumerable failures to write poetry, novels and music; barely successful efforts to earn a living around newspapers ; and some definite progress in helping local bohemians support the distilling industry. This slightly dated era of peace-in-her-time was ended, not by Mr. Chamberlain...
Dactylic Don Juan. To Matthew Arnold's dictum that Shelley was "a beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain," Author Smith & Others snort an indignant Jig-gerypoo! Shelley, they insist, was a dactylic Don Juan, a Byron of the Bohemian underbrush. "The difficulty with the Shelley worshippers is that they cannot bring themselves to realize or to admit that...
Earl Browder said that Foster was guilty of "the purest anarcho-syndicalism." He assailed his critics for "IWWism," "semi-Trotskyism," and "bohemian anarchism." And, said he, bitterly: "The worst is yet to come...