Word: bohemianism
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...next mentor was Avant-Garde Composer Milton Babbitt. Sondheim, straight out of Williams, talked Babbitt into taking him on as a private pupil in structure and theory. He paid with money from a fellowship and stretched the funds by living in bohemian disorder in his father's dining room. Next he tried to break into show business. A few painful years of struggle -- scraping up auditions that led to more auditions, writing and rewriting a show that never got staged because the producer died, going out to Hollywood to write scripts for the TV sitcom Topper -- ended in triumph when...
...Chicago native published his first book, "Delmore Schwartz: The Life of an American Poet," a biography of the 1920s New York poet. With the money he received from the book, Atlas moved to New York with the expectation of joining the Bohemian scene where he thought he would find that omnipresent genius was either inbred or quickly acquired...
...There was no world like the one I'd read about and written about, no world like New York of the 40s. I discovered a very stratified scene and a new professionalism," Atlas said. "You can't live the Bohemian life, you have to have a job....And now it's very complicated business. All these young writers talk about their agents and their hard-soft deals and they're being marketed...
...approval that abolished the traditional men-only rule. The Kiwanians, said Eleanor Smeal, president of the National Organization for Women, had sounded the "death knell for male-only economic organizations." Now, she went on, feminists can target all-male "dinosaurs such as the Cosmos Club ((in Washington)) and the Bohemian Club ((in San Francisco...
...pretty typical incident in Robison's life, her early years being spent "all over the map, getting married, having children, being a hobo, a socialist..." Robison even looks the part of a carefree bohemian. "I love the way she looks like what you would imagine in a stereotypical writer: she smokes nonstop, she drinks lots of black cofee, has wild hair and funky bracelets," says Elizabeth L. Buckley '87, a first-time student in Robison's creative writing course...