Word: bohemianized
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...Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, was a near sellout, raised an astonishing $25,000 for Ward's defense. This week a sober-looking jury of eleven mostly middle-aged men and one woman will decide whether talented Stephen Ward is a pimp and a procurer or just a jolly bohemian...
...school, and she will back away nervously, stammering "individuality...no stereo-types whatsoever... leave me alone," and things like that. The poor girl is afraid you are trying to squeeze her and her friends into a single mold: the stringy brunette mold perhaps, or worse, the intense, amoral, Bohemian mold. Life, Holiday, the New York Times, Sports Illustrated, and Leonie St. John became her eternal enemies as soon as they suggested one-word summaries...
Seedy Surroundings. Clustered mainly in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, off-Broadway's theaters exert the faintly exotic double lure of intellectual climbing and Bohemian slumming among asthenic men with beards and girls with Lady Godiva hairdos. The playhouses themselves are adventures, or misadventures; in these pleasure domes, a chair arm may fall off at the gentlest touch. But seedy surroundings cannot tarnish the bright promise that off-Broadway holds out and sometimes spectacularly fulfills. It gives new playwrights, directors and actors a voice. On intimate, semiround or full arena stages, old and neglected classics have been given fresh...
...bomb, claimed that if a working mother could not have the best of both worlds, "she can have the best of one and as much as possible of the other." She protested against "the tyranny of housework," but noted that she was "not suggesting you live your life in Bohemian squalor...
Fate turns up in the form of a gorgeous 17-year-old bohemian named Charlotte, the daughter of Georgie's childhood love. Charlotte is a dreadful shock to everyone at Wellington College: they wear tweeds and say "homosexual''; she wears leotards and says "faggot." The scene in which this Lorelei reawakens the red-eared adolescent in Georgie is worth some study. They are alone; she reclines on black satin. She murmurs: "I was just wondering what would happen if in addition to dinner and the ballet tonight, we gave ourselves some of the ultimate pleasures...