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...BEYOND this contrast of message and milieu, the opening of the Bicentennial celebration was marked by a more serious confusion of historical interpretation and present purpose. "The two lanterns of the Old North Church have fired a torch of freedom that has been carried to the ends of the earth," was Ford's metaphor for the action that marked the start of the colonists revolution, and throughout his speech the president revealed that it was more the torch than the freedom that he found inspiring. The blood of the Civil War, the corpse-ridden trenches of the First World...
Critics of the airlift also questioned the assumption that Vietnamese orphans would be better off if they were adopted by Americans. Traditionally, Vietnamese orphans are cared for by members of their extended family, or by friends from their community or village; the children's milieu is thus altered as little as possible. When the evacuation began, many South Vietnamese found it doubly repugnant that their waifs were being transplanted into an utterly alien culture and given American names. Many Americans were not surprised when Saigon announced last week that with 1,700 children already gone, it would tighten...
...Corporal Teilhard, the war was a "baptism in reality." The theological musings in the diary amount to a rough draft of The Divine Milieu, the 1926-27 treatise (finally published in 1957) in which Teilhard formally set out his view of God as a "center" who "fills the whole sphere" of creation. Despite his disclaimers, the church found this idea dangerously akin to pantheism, the idea that God and the universe are identical. A comment on the last day of July 1916 summarizes his lifelong attempt to reconcile Catholicism and modern science: "My mission = very humbly but ceaselessly to take...
...associate psychiatrist to UHS, said that the overriding factor causing depression at Harvard is that most students at Harvard "expect to do as well at Harvard as they did in high school," and many find that they are not able to compete in such a "uniquely talented and capable milieu...
Emmanuelle, newly married to one of the rising junior execs of the Diplomatic Service, is the wide-eyed innocent, the Candy of the French screen, who with surprising diligence and seriousness tries to fit into her husband's social milieu: as she says, to become a "true wife" to him. Whatever plot there is stems from her alternating distaste and awe towards this glittering, exotic, useless way of life. Yet the conflict between her resistance on the one hand and the constant sexual wooing of her male and female friends on the other--to persuade her that once she tries...