Word: bohemianism
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...about what Romanticism is to Classicism. The Taoist claimed that the Chinese fell from the simple life--the ideal--into artificiality about the twenty-seventh century B.C. Man must now return to that idylic state, and few writers have ever set forth more entertainingly what may be called the Bohemian outlook upon life than Chuang...
Helen Gahagan, Hollo Peters, Eric Dressier, Mrs. Whiffen's matronly daughter, Peggy. This, the highest paid assemblage ever seen on one legitimate stage, enacts for the fourth time in the U. S. (the first, 1898) the fortunes of those shockingly Bohemian actors and actresses who strutted in famed Sadler's "Wells" during the reign of good Queen Victoria. To the zip-gobbling audiences of this day, the play offers mellow humor and pathos-qualities whose commercial values are doubtful. To the student of the theatre, to the lover of stage personalities, it is irresistable. Dramatist Pinero in Trelawny...
Ineffable Bohemian...
...Hotel Druot, Paris, in an hour and a half, for 1,648,750 francs (about $55,000). A Cezanne went for 280,000, a nude by Matisse for 100,000; the highest price of the sale 520,000 francs was paid for a picture by Henry Rousseau, "The Sleeping Bohemian," which the artist sold 15 years ago for 400 francs. Even now some critics laugh at it. "What Idiot," asked L'Oetivre, "Will Pay the Big Price for the 'Sleeping Bohemian'?" To pass sentence on the mental soundness of M. Bigne, the buyer, one must...
...buried in his mind a long time before, perhaps in his childhood; for the picture of the night, the desert, the beast and the sleeping woman is achieved in accents as intense and dim as the words of a child in a fever. It may be that the word "Bohemian" had taken on, when he first heard it, some quality not its own, a jangling note that suggested the picture, for why the painted traveler, asleep under the moon with her mandolin should be a "Bohemian" is hard to say. Her mandolin is quiet. All around her, upon the desert...