Word: bohemianized
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...harder because he was, in many ways, a Western intellectual, steeped in European thought and experience; he knew what the world was like before Communism and beyond Stalin. Born into a middle-class Jewish family in 1891, he early migrated to Paris' Left Bank and the bohemian life of a young poet trying to recapture in lyrical verse the "beauty of the vanished world" of medievalism...
Passing Panic. The paradoxes abound. Sandy is part American Midwesterner, part American bohemian. She is soft, cuddly, feminine-yet a blue-streak cusser and a four-letter woman. She looks like the idealized schoolteacher that boys remember falling in love with. Her skin is transparent. Her features, with one exception, are almost perfect. Her windswept hair is a lovely honey color...
...palatable to me than Thomas Aquinas." After studying one of Luther's major doctrinal tracts, reports Father John Healey of the Jesuits' Woodstock seminary, "my students say that the only question we're not talking about today is the problem with the Hussites"-the pre-Reformation Bohemian heretics of the 15th century...
When Kodály entered the Budapest Conservatory as a young, sandaled Bohemian, he was appalled at the tyrannical influence of the German professors who, he snorted, "couldn't even speak Hungarian." Determined to develop "the natural mother tongue of every Hungarian composer," he teamed with another ardent nationalist, Bela Bartók, and armed with primitive Edison recording machines, roamed the Magyar countryside and collected 12,000 folk songs...
Apparently he couldn't play the flute. In Ibsen's The Wild Duck, Hjalmar Ekdal renders "with sentimental expression" a brief passage from a Bohemian folk-dance. In the Adams House version he is about to let loose when the door conveniently swings open, and we never hear a note...