Word: milieu
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...socialite from Philadelphia's Main Line and wealthy in her own right from Pennsylvania Railroad holdings, Tod Clark married Nelson Rockefeller six days after his 1930 graduation from Dartmouth College. She was hardly the sort to feel at home in the political milieu. But when Rocky boomed into elective politics in 1958, swamping Democrat Averell Hardman for Governor, Tod tried to make the best of it. "I certainly think it's a challenge and enjoyable," she said, not quite convincingly, of political life. "I think you have an opportunity to get close to the real life...
...only remotely plausible arguments for PT are that it provides a social milieu for those who do not have the comradeship of prep school associations and that it may provide a compulsory break in study for those who drive themselves to overwork. It certainly seems a curious sort of year-long social mixer, and an equally curious way of protecting people from themselves. Perhaps there is something to this kind of defense, but even if proven, it would only have begun to justify the requirement. As it is, PT is nasty, brutish, and nowhere near short enough...
...startlingly candid: "I love to talk about myself." Every few sentences he drops a four-letter word, as if to see if it will bounce. But he is obviously trying hard to be liked and to be straightforward in a Hollywood milieu where he recognizes that "you can make an entire career out of baloney...
...traditional Continental world of the small, bedizened, sad-eyed circus troupe-a world not of popcorn but of pony ballets, with a touch of childlike innocence redeeming its tawdriness. Carnival! is, in fact, out of the movie Lili, with a faint echo or two of Liliom; it celebrates a milieu whose romantic lure is born of its realistic hardships, a milieu almost symbolically touching for its way of suggesting the loneliness in crowds, the heartbreak in gaiety, and the homelessness of perky circus wagons...
...part of a familiar enough tradition, it manages a certain freshness and appeal by veering sharply from the prevailing tradition of Broadway. If the evening suggests limitations, it may partly be because the subject matter itself has limits. As the title proclaims, Carnival! is first and last milieu; it keeps offering, a little redundantly, all sides of what has really no center. Sometimes the charm of Carnival! is real, sometimes synthetic. Sometimes the show expresses a circus world, sometimes it merely exploits it. Love, again, comes to seem more of a refrain than a reality, a happenstance that can make...