Word: milieu
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Sternberg is a master of milieu most of all: he clutters the stage of the Blue Angel with people, clouds, and animals. The nightclub writhes with activity. So many women are seated behind Dietrich that at first it is difficult to pick her out from her immediate surroundings. This tawdry baroque contracts heavily with the stark, antiseptic hallways at the Gymnasium. Rath has entered a new world...
...study. Partly, no doubt, this trend responds to the growing complexity of all careers, but surely it reflects as well an unwillingness to leave the relatively safe academic environment, where grades are clear marks of success or failure and the way to adequate grades is fairly clear. The academic milieu can become extraordinarily relaxing for any reasonably intelligent student. In addition there is, despite complaints about the grading system, a certain logic and predictability to academic success and failure which is lacking in fields like business and politics...
...assistant to the President for liaison and personnel. In the office is a card file containing the background of every Senator and Congressman. Among the data are such items as a man's close political friends, college fraternity, his wife's maiden name, his economic and educational milieu-information that has proved invaluable in finding undreamed of ways to reach a man. A tough, candid operator. O'Brien has already talked over the President's program with several congressional delegations, told them that the White House will call Congressmen with good news for constituents, leave unpleasant...
...since sparked a posthumous cult of "Teil-hardism" in France. Recently published in the U.S. is a book Teilhard wrote 35 years ago - a spiritual meditation on the cosmology he later developed from a scientific viewpoint in The Phenomenon of Man (TIME, Dec. 14, 1959). Its title: The Divine Milieu* (Harper...
...four years her junior, Berthe made her mark in a man's world, the just-born world of French impressionism. "Do you realize what this means?" one of her early painting teachers asked her mother when he realized how big a talent Berthe had. "In the upper-class milieu to which you belong, this will be revolutionary. I might almost say, catastrophic." But Mamma Morisot was not afraid f having her daughter turn artist, and her husband, a well-to-do civil servant, was broad-minded enough about the girl to introduce her to Painter Camille Corot...