Word: milieu
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...match made in mythological-heaven. In Greek lore, Pleiades is a group of seven sisters renowned for their beauty and immortalized by Zeus as a constellation. In the Harvard Bookstore, Pleiades is an obscure literary magazine published by Central Missouri State University. And in the Harvard social milieu, Pleiades is a recently formed quasi-sorority. FM played matchmaker, uniting the social club and the magazine to explore their eponymous obscurity...
...dining facilities. Adams didn’t want to be rude, but it had to do something about the overcrowding that had led to food shortages, unpaid overtime for dining hall workers and an atmosphere more like Grand Central Station at rush hour than the easy collegial milieu they’d come to expect...
...their parents had a sense of humor too), the other Milton (he died in the influenza epidemic of 1919). Mom worked, Dad stayed home and minded the kids. In 1915, the family moved to New York City, perhaps to get the budding draftsman-craftsman Al(bert) into an artistic milieu. He went to a few art schools and found remuneration in advertising departments of local movie companies. He worked for Samuel Goldwyn and Lewis Selznick (David O.'s father), becoming art director of Selznick...
...hair-don't" and exile her to the special ed class. She and Link Larkin, her "common-law boyfriend," are ostracized from their keen teen group. Her best friend, Penny Pingleton, is denounced as a "checkerboard chick" for dating a black student. True to its early-60s milieu, the film climaxes in demonstrations, violent disputes, jail time for the civil-rights marchers. And (this is a fantasy, folks) they danced happily ever after...
...former metalworker who lost a finger to a job accident, Lula at times seems uncomfortable with the notion that he's had to move Blair-ward to make himself electable. But even though Lula's high school education doesn't match the Ph.D. milieu of Cardoso and the ruling party's smug technocrats, he seems to be aware enough of one of the root causes of Brazil's (and Latin America's) new economic crisis. The free-market reforms relied too addictively on foreign capital, which in turn kept local interest rates inordinately high - and eventually snuffed out the very...