Word: bohemianized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...composition instructor at the Juilliard School of Music, Peter finds that "if you lead a normal life, you have more time to compose." Anyway, he says, "to be bohemian is old hat." He and his violinist wife, Georganne, 24, whom he met at Eastman and married last year, manage to stay out of each other's artistic hair by dividing up their six-room apartment on Riverside Drive: he composes in a room at one end of the apartment while she practices in a room at the other...
...into the intrigues of Renaissance Italy and renders Greek myths in his own way; gives a long narrative of Chinese history and satirizes the visit to Europe of a lady from Kansas; comments on philosophical problems and wanders off into topical harangues. He loves to indulge in the old Bohemian game of scandalizing the bourgeoisie (he once wrote: "The thought of what America would be like/If the Classics had a wide circulation/ Troubles my sleep."). But though he is desperately eager to appear the European sophisticate, there is always in Pound's work a strong tinge of the small...
...released or purged, including 25 of the 120 generals. About 14 generals have already escaped. Many, many more would like to escape . . . The western frontier is now more heavily guarded than at any time since the war. There are 45,000 police troops guarding the border and patrolling the Bohemian forests...
...Communist government. Although he says he is not a party member, he composes little nowadays because so much of his time is taken up as president of Hungary's Arts Council, Academy of Sciences, and Academy of Music, and as a member of Parliament. Once a sandaled Bohemian, he is now one of Budapest's most elegant dressers, lives in fashionable Andrássy Ut. This fall in London he will conduct his latest major composition, a Missa Brevis, which he completed in a cellar in the last days of the Russian siege of Budapest...
...Evelyn is said to have sat usually mute, but terrifyingly observant. Other contemporaries recall a more vigorous Waugh-a young sport who, like Father Rothschild, rode a motorcycle and, like Sir Alastair Digby-Vaine-Trumpington, drank a good deal and was sometimes noisy in public places. He was conspicuously bohemian and agnostic and enjoyed baiting Roman Catholics, for his wit already possessed a fine cutting edge...