Word: milieu
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...milieu of mediocrity typified by false status symbols, development-house suburbia and permanented hairdos, we praise the commonplace, criticize the unusual. Jacqueline Kennedy is a standout, not only for her natural beauty and discerning taste, but for her possession of a lost art in the U.S. today: the art of being an individualist...
...ancient idea: the mentally ill are sick, but still people, and they must be treated as people, if they are ever to return to society. For several centuries B.C., some Greek temples were maintained as retreats, where the emotionally disturbed could recover in a calm and restful atmosphere ("milieu therapy" in the jargon of today's psychiatry...
...popular literature and the mass media? If the light of the Godhead has gone out, what is to save us from an everlasting night of spiritual squalor, timidity, and sloth? What remains to command human loyalty and aspiration beyond the interests of one's particular generation and narrow milieu...
...lacquer of China rather than the rough furniture of medieval Scotland). Marie Day has designed suitable costumes; and Richard Baldridge has devised musical and sound effects, for percussion or bagpipes, that are more primitive than one normally finds in a Shakespearean production--but then I suppose Macbeth's milieu was quite primitive...
...night before its confrontation with those of the other side--on the frontier, "the point of attrition between two huge wheels. One half of the world against the other." One fears that it was only a sense of the most literal realism that led Betti to choose this milieu as the setting in which the gospel of irresponsibility is preached in its baldest form: "We are all excused from having to act. We are only spectators: we shall do no more than watch. And naturally, we shall also submit. ... We see hands move: and they're not ours. The gestures...