Story highlights. Michael Skakel, a Kennedy relative convicted of the 1975 murder of a 15-year-old neighbor, walked out of a Connecticut courthouse Thursday on bail.
In England the Decadents were 1890s figures such as Arthur Symons (âthe blond angelâ), Oscar Wilde, Ernest Dowson, and Lionel Johnson, who were members of the Rhymersâ Club or contributors to The Yellow Book.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia. 1  provocative Serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate; exciting; apt to incense or enrage: as, provocative threats. 2  n provocative Anything that tends to excite appetite or passion; a stimulant.