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Atheists ban Bob Dylan: the liberated Bohemian mind is a no-no in Red China

It’s not just tightly wound religious fundamentalists who can get worked up over the hippie counterculture: atheists can ban Bob Dylan too. This was in the Guardian recently: Aged 68 and almost half a century past the zenith of his angry, … Continue reading

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21st Century Bohemian Hippie Joy

The liberated body and free-flowing consciousness. The hope of the world: When I watch this I think of John Keats’s famous lines from “Ode on a Grecian Urn”: Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all … Continue reading

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Are You a Bohemian?

This nineteenth century person was. She let herself be painted by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and he named the painting Lise the Bohemian (1868): This appears to be a young woman, amidst a languid summer, in the process of falling in on herself, almost … Continue reading

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Joe Cocker, Spontaneously and Effortlessly Cool in 1970

This made me smile: Oops. It doesn’t embed, but it’s worth the click over. See it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RnjWLVyMps

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