Word: bohemianized
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Grant Wood got to Paris, but Paris just confused him. He studied dutifully at the famed Julian Academy, dressed with Bohemian flamboyance, grew a crop of pink whiskers, painted scores of ordinary, dreamy, old-world impressionist landscapes. But his heart was not in it. He finally decided: "All the really good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow." He went back to his native Iowa, to paint the country and the people he knew. But it was not in Iowa, but back in Europe again, that he discovered the style that finally made...
Last of the great line of Central European symphonists, Mahler, a Bohemian Jew, has been dead for 30 years, but among musicians his name is still good for a dogfight. In Vienna, for Nazi reasons, Gustav Mahlerstrasse has been renamed Meistersingerstrasse-rendered Gustav Meistersingerstrasse by subversive Viennese. In the U.S., Mahler partisans are organized as intensely as movie-fan clubs. One group awards a Mahler medal to outstanding torchbearers (Philadelphia's Conductor Eugene Ormandy, Boston's Sergei Koussevitzky, German Exile Bruno Walter-Mahler's disciple). Commentator at the broadcasts is Czech Author Franz Werfel, third husband...
...quietly in the pink stucco Banyuls house where he was born, taking his models from among the neighboring peasant women, ringing a thousand changes in plaster, stone and terracotta on the one theme that interests him in life: the curving grace of women's bodies. At home, spry Bohemian Oldster Maillol has his troubles. His sister-in-law, who has a tremor in her hands, is continually dropping his best casts on the floor and breaking them. His wife, a monumental peasant woman whom he married 46 years ago when she was a perfect model, now glowers jealously over...
...Eisler, composer of the battle song Komin-tern, it is not Mexican, but an ultrasophisticated mixture of Hindemith, Schönberg and Prokofieff. This was not the way Steinbeck had planned it. His first choice for composer was Mexico's famed Silvestre Revueltas, a man of Balzacian corpulence, Bohemian courses, and a gift for orchestration. At the climax of their negotiations the hard-drinking Revueltas-to Steinbeck's and Mexico's dismay -died at the unripe age of 40 years...
...since 1879, cavalry-mustached Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. The reactionaries of the day had missed the point about Louis Brandeis. whom they had sneeringly dubbed "Saint Louis of Boston." He was no political radical. He was almost mystically a believer in the individual. The son of a middle-class Bohemian immigrant who had fled after the European revolutions of 1848, Brandeis was born (Nov. 13, 1856) into the semi-frontier society of Kentucky, in an atmosphere of deeply felt, unquenchable individualism...