Word: bohemianism
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...Tsitsos apparently is not always so passive. Reports circulate that he's a legend, a wild man. Tsitsos stories abound. He epitomizes the bohemian lifestyle, they say. One recounts the time he was stopped on the Mass Pike going 120 mph. Whether the stories are true seems unimportant. What matters is that they so very easily could be true...
...wrath of the local Mafia honcho by declining to vote in the prescribed manner. Mimi (Giancarlo Giannini) leaves his indifferent wife at home and moves north to Turin. There he lands a job in a metallurgy plant, a position in the trade union and the love of a ravishing bohemian called Fiore (Mariangela Melato...
Unusual Circles. Old colleagues agreed that Daniélou had long been a clerical bohemian who traveled in unusual circles. Even after he turned theologically conservative a few years before becoming a cardinal in 1969, he remained a political and social progressive, and something of a chaplain to the demimonde. The cardinal was "profoundly compassionate," explained Fellow Jesuit Xavier Tilliette. If he also "ran risks to the point of imprudence," he was only following "the example of the Divine Master, [who] ate and drank as a friend of publicans and sinners...
...America." More recently, Lexicographer Nicolas Slonimsky has taken a less adoring stance: "The quality of his works easily accounts for the speedy and complete oblivion of even his name." This first LP of his music suggests that the real Heinrich lies somewhere between Beethoven and oblivion. He was a Bohemian immigrant who, among other things, wrote some grandiose orchestral works and helped found the New York Philharmonic Society in 1842. The piano and vocal pieces offered here will strike some listeners as benign imitations of Haydn and early Beethoven. Yet compared with the efforts of other American composers...
...exhortation has the same sort of naivete as the Harvard freshman has who expects to spend his evenings in Cambridge leaning meaningfully over cheap coffee in basement bohemian cafes. The atmosphere lover soon finds he must pay for his passions with cover charges or inflated prices...