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...with terrible vengeance upon all who attempted to exploit these strangely gifted children. That ending does not quite match Carrie's, perhaps because the picture as a whole does not work as powerfully on one's emotions. The reason is that Carrie herself existed in an ordinary milieu, a middle-class high school. The contrast between it and her "talent" was vivid. Then, too, Carrie was such a plain mousy little thing, so set upon by her peers that one derived vengeful satisfaction when she-literally-brought the house of her tormentors down around them. By contrast...
What is to be done if the emphasis in concert is almost always on composers dating before World War II and usually concentrates on the baroque, classical and early romantic eras? The answer is to search for the occasional performance of contemporary works which find their proper milieu in our own twentieth century, instead of evoking the Europe or America of the eighteenth...
...that media critic Marshall McLuhan has aptly summed up as "the electronic age," you would expect to find some established means of learning about electronic technology in your college. After all, didn't McLuhan say, "We are no more prepared to encounter radio and TV in our literate milieu than the native of Ghana is able to cope with the literacy that takes him out of his tribal world and beaches him in individual isolation...
...they frequently must to gain jobs or advance in them ?they begin to be weaned from their native language. Outside Quebec, Canada's scattered French-speaking minority regularly loses a large part of its younger generation to English-speaking North America. Says Quebecois Poet Fernand Ouellette: "In a milieu of bilingualism, there is no coexistence, there is only a continuous aggression of the language of the majority." Quebecois are particularly bitter because little effort is given to preserving their language in the rest of Canada. Quebec has traditionally provided comprehensive, tax-supported education and complete social services in English...
...movie is content to look back at wrestling's tacky milieu without trying to score any pretentious, socially significant points. It also leaves Andy happy with celebrity at any price, and that may be a mistake. Winkler's essential intelligence shines through anything he does, and it would not make his character's strange fate any less funny if, finally, he were permitted to discover that there was some thing missing from his scheme of values...