Word: bohemias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Where is my home? Where is my home?" they sang. (The watching crowd bowed their heads; many wept.) "Fair Bohemia is my home! Fair Bohemia is my home!" (The police stood ramrod still; one reporter noticed several of the policemen weeping too.) "Thunders crashing wild, over Tatras' dark main...
...horror of New Orleans' old guard, there are even krewes for women. Each seemed determined that its ball should be as lavish as the next. Queens of new krewes were not always debutantes, but all-like pretty Shirley Ray Toups (see cut), who reigned over the Bards of Bohemia ball-were gorgeously gowned...
Free to Be a Fool. It is only after the hero has sampled the conventional attitudes of Bohemia that he realizes their inadequacy and achieves absolution by embracing "the age of reason" (i.e., an understanding of his own self-dependence). Writhing in an existentialist trance, he proclaims the Sartrian gospel: "... It is by my agency that everything must happen." The author sums up: "Even if he let himself be carried off in helplessness and in despair ... he would have chosen his own damnation: he was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine...
...dish-shaped face, discolored by oriental suns and high fevers") ; Sinclair Wensday ("a cocaine personality . . . tall and popular . . . Galahad gone to the devil"). At his best Author Kersh writes like a comic Soho Gorki, drawing wicked, lively sketches of the barflies, pimps, fairies and phonies of London's bohemia. But Prelude never really gets going and never comes to an end, simply limping from sketch to sketch, as though even Author Kersh were never quite sure what he intended to say on the last page...
...works, have since risen in Monterrey, the brewery has remained the key to everything. It brought in other industries - glass factories to make bottles, metal works for bottle caps, paper plants for labels and cartons. The Sadas, Muguerzas and Garzas, the families who brewed the famed Carta Blanca and Bohemia, came to a large extent to control Monterrey's 600-odd industries. The brewery also set Monterrey's labor pattern, with independent (i.e., company) unions for its 4,000 employes, one of the most elaborate social centers in Mexico, evening classes, free beer, swimming pools, free medical clinics...