Word: bohemianism
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...declared independence. They suffered from what Taylor describes as "a distinct lack of money." But lately Queen's fortunes have been rising fast. Under the guidance of Manager John Reid, 26, who also handles Elton John, Queen has become the monarch of British rock. A few weeks ago, Bohemian Rhapsody, a six-minute cut that mingles introspection with Gilbert and Sullivan operatics, hit the top of the British music charts. Queen's fourth LP, A Night At The Opera (Elektra), has passed the million-seller mark worldwide. Last week the group began a six-week tour...
...STORY MIGHT READ BETTER as a novel, opening as it does with a scene that Sinclair Lewis would have loved: the meeting of the University of California Board of Regents, fresh from mint juleps at San Francisco's Bohemian and Pacific Union Clubs, with at least 10 millionaires out of 24 discussing whether they should raise tuition by a total of $4 million for the 1971-72 academic year. The scene is jolly--the men are "radiant as ten suns." Lewis might have said--and the tuition increase in passed. These men, and two women, don't worry about students...
...dress-cloaks, Carlyle-size black hats, gold earrings-he boozed and philandered his way through every level of English society. He was a licensed vertical invader, conspicuous even in the notable roster of Edwardian eccentrics that stretched from the Cafe Royal to Bloomsbury. There had of course been English bohemians before, but none had seemed so obstreperously life-enhancing as Augustus John. As Michael Holroyd observes in this superb biography, "In the public imagination he was to represent the Great Artist, the Great Lover, the Great Bohemian Enjoyer of Life. It was a cruelly ironic comment on his actual career...
Bellow. His life settled into a long, pixilated idyl: winters of bohemian sloth on Singer Island, Fla., sleepy summers at his mother's house in upstate New York, side trips to Europe and Nassau, and an endless supply of booze and accommodating young women. Still, he insists, "my life-style of lugging my own soiled sweat shirts and skivvies to the laundromat and lunching on cheeseburgers and draft beer had altered not a whit...
...moved with inexorable continuity. At the movement's highpoint, Lefkowitz displayed dazzling virtuosity in the intertwining, unbelievably intricate Kreisler cadenza. The audience was fascinated and broke into applause after the first movement. The third movement Rondo picked up a light, Viennese lilt that occasionally became reminiscent of a Bohemian dance. The orchestral exposition of the Concerto, which opens so sweetly and delicately, was meek and hesitant. But by the Rondo the orchestra had warmed up to its full spirit...