Word: bohemianism
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...setting is the country home of the Bliss family, a clearly ironic name. Each member of this ill-mannered, artistic bohemian brood had invited a personal guest to the house for the weekend to be wined, dined and seduced. When it becomes apparent that the family's guests will all be staying on the same weekend, the family devises a unique method of dealing with the overcrowding...
Told mostly from the boy's point of view, Careful is a remarkably a curate and insightful portrait of a child torn between manipulative adults Although too young to understand the full implications of their selfishness and occasional perversity. "PS" so named by his bohemian mother "as a postscript to my ridiculous life" is nevertheless aware of far more than they think...
...Always distrust professed honesty," says Scumbler, an aging, defiantly bohemian American painter in Paris. "It's the ultimate con job." This seems an odd assertion from a character whose narrative is one long profession of emotional candor, sensitivity, creativity and individuality. William Wharton's novel is no con job, however, but something perhaps harder to take: a credo of total, devout and sometimes excruciating sincerity...
...part of London's bohemian Bloomsbury group, Keynes dined with such luminaries as Novelists Virginia Woolf and E.M. Forster. Those gatherings sharpened his Renaissance restlessness. For most of his life Keynes was simultaneously a don, a diplomat and a highly successful currency speculator. As his stature grew, his sexuality shifted. In 1925 Keynes wed the beautiful Russian ballerina Lydia Lopokova. Their marriage endured for the rest of his life. So full were his days on earth that Keynes was able to recall only one regret shortly before his 1946 death: he was sorry, he said, not to have drunk...
...being the sort of model of civic rectitude that the folks back in her home town of Akron might approve. After a low-key, Midwestern small-town childhood, she took off for England, wild and a little desperate, at the age of 22, and plunged into the sort of bohemian life that, with suitable adjustments for advanced age and encroaching gentility, still obtains today. She and Davies live without benefit of paper or clergy in a London apartment, and Hynde still takes a showwoman's pride in turning on an audience. She is a current front runner...