Word: bohemianized
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...rents" for Harvard Square and its vicinity, but stressed that the actual price varies greatly' according to the neighborhood, the distance from Harvard, and the apartment's condition. Two-bedroom apartments often rent for more than $200 in plush apartment houses. On the other hand, there are a few bohemian but attractive apartments located near Central Square which rent...
Medardo Rosso was a rebel. A shaggy, red-bearded bohemian, he called Greek and Roman sculpture "nothing but paperweights." The curly beard of Michelangelo's Moses was "Neapolitan spaghetti" to him. While studying at the Brera Academy in Milan, he punched a fellow student and was expelled. He took haven in Paris' Montmartre district in the days of Degas, Lautrec and Rodin. What did he think about Rodin, his senior by nearly 18 years? "Rosso loves Rosso," was his cool reply...
Kops hates himself, and he has reasons, as he drifts "up and down, delirious or sad, exhibitionistic and intense" among the assorted spivs and queers of Soho and London's wide bohemian fringelands. "I was a member of a new minority where my Jewish neurosis suddenly became an attribute. So I became a permanent fixture and at first it was a giggle...
...exuberance gave him a spectator's seat rather than an underdog's role in the old British game of class soccer. After a fine meal with good wine he would quip: "You can always live like a millionaire for five minutes." This is the tone of the bohemian rather than the social reformer. And when he set up house with pretty Socialist Jennie Lee, the Bevan cottage was exactly the sort of modest weekend retreat inhabited by a thousand middle-class intellectuals...
Author Cleland, the never-do-well bohemian who first put Fanny between covers, wrote the book because he needed money, but sold it for a mere 20 guineas. He thereafter pursued his passion for philology and died a scholar. His publisher, made rich by reprints, died a proper gentleman...