Word: bohemianism
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...Room Is Empty, a sequel that takes White into young manhood, is at once clumsier and much more ambitious. At times as pretentious as the title, derived from Kafka, it trots out a succession of irritatingly self-indulgent characters and a clutch of cliches about the 1950s, from the bohemian belle to the poet turned adman. Yet White can always save a wearying passage with some apercu about himself or some chillingly uninflected glimpse of cruelty. And if his protracted tale about coming out seems dated, that merely reflects White's master plan: he aims at nothing less than...
Looking around, there are all sorts passing by--scruffy old men, women draped in Indian beads, Bohemian looking young ladies in black, law students with notebooks, yuppies and a punk...
...December 1987, 63 of the 125 female members of the Stanford faculty signed an open letter urging the university to end the subsidies on grounds that the Bohemian Club discriminates against women, said Maryanne Seawell of the Stanford News Service...
...mayor of San Francisco, [Dianne Feinstein], a Stanford graduate, attends such clubs while visiting public officials in other cities," Seawell said. "She couldn't invite them to lunch reciprocally at the Bohemian Club...
...addition to charging gender discrimination, Stanford undergraduates have questioned the Bohemian Club's treatment of its workers. After ties between Stanford and the Bohemian Club were made public, "some students joined with unionized workers who were protesting conditions at the Bohemian Club," Seawell said...