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Among proper-Bostonian Lowells and Lodges, the Cabots are known for "customs, not manners," and there is no more bohemian Brahmin than Harvard's stocky, cigar-smoking treasurer, Paul Codman Cabot, 66. Fiercely energetic, shatteringly frank, he can curse like a barge captain, yet guide a big investment like the skipper of a liner. Last week, two months before his mandatory retirement, he achieved a lifetime goal by pushing the market value of Harvard's investments past $1 billion. No other university comes close to such an endowment...
...After work I often slept on a desk at the office or stayed overnight when friends invited me to dinner in their homes," he said. "This was not because of a Bohemian bent in me. Far from it. According to the law, 'native' bachelors have to live in hostels in Johannesburg, ten or more strange men to a room. I chose to be a wanderer...
Died. Nancy Cunard, 68, great-granddaughter of the famed British ship line's founder, a London socialite turned bohemian who became an early crusader for Negro rights, moved to Harlem in 1932, where she published an 854-page anthology on Negro life and organized a campaign that helped the Scottsboro boys, seven Alabama Negroes convicted of raping two white girls, win Supreme Court reversal of their death sentences; in Paris...
...suggests 200,000 motives, and a reconciliation is followed by the usual palaver about love, life and sleeping arrangements. They must curb their "primeval ahneemal appetites," says Gina, but she can't curb the bohemian in herself. In protest against unnamed bureaucrats who have requisitioned a fig leaf for a work of art, she defiantly agrees to march on the U.S. embassy just as Rock's boss arrives there. Gina appears as promised, sitting astride a white horse a la Lady Godiva, filling a flesh-toned body stocking that rolls all the way up to the neck. There...
Thomas Merton, the compleat bohemian who became a Trappist monk at 26, has carried on an astringent "dialogue with the world" ever since. In his 24 years as a member of Kentucky's Abbey of Gethsemani, he has built a seven-storey mountain of poems, autobiography, reflection and translation that attests to his continuing concern for mankind at large. In this collection of essays and letters, Merton punctures the white liberal's complacent participation in the civil rights movement as a kind of self-indulgence that is of "no interest to the Negro." In his view, what...