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...before the revolution. During the civil war, he swung in behind Denikin's White Guards and strongly attacked Communism in an early poem. Then, when it appeared that the Bolsheviks were there to stay, he flirted with Trotskyism, dropped it for Bukharinism, and finally in Paris, where in bohemian Montparnasse he kept a step ahead of the consequences of his earlier misjudgments, he became Stalin's advocate...
...brilliant cartoonist or observant cop: "He's five foot six and a half. Thick blubber lips; snub nose; curly mouse-brown hair; one front tooth broken . . . speaks rather fancy; truculent; plausible ; a bit of a shower-off; plus fours and no breakfast, you know ... a bombastic adolescent provincial bohemian with a thick-knotted artist's tie made out of his sister's scarf-she never knew where it had gone ... a gabbing, ambitious, mock-tough, pretentious young man; and moley, too." Or he can roll all the world's seaside picnics into an impressionistic memory...
...householders on Bellevue Place, tenants of sleek new apartments and keepers of genteel rooming houses, didn't mind the idea of a local poets' corner until word got out that Mrs. Stevenson planned to convert the basement and garden of her house into a bohemian bistro. Chicago Gossip Columnist Irving ("Kup") Kupcinet confided in the Sun-Times that Mrs. Stevenson planned "a European style cafe [with] a combination of theatre and nite-club performances." The neighborhood exploded. In vain did Mrs. Stevenson and friends explain that the basement club would be private, the garden performances Shakespearean and very...
...possible that a college with standards as high and achievements as numerous as those which Bard may well be proud of, be considered a failure: The creativity and imagination, intellectual and artistic, which all visitors immediately notice at Bard, has been mistaken for eccentricity, valuable individual freedom for a "Bohemian" type of strained non-conformity, and insight and initiative for ultra-progressivism and fanaticism...
...Bohemian Club award of income from a special fund will go to David G. Hughes 2G for his composition, "Sarabande for Violin and Piano...