Word: milieu
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...envision the walls of Harvard Law School in total isolation, or we can approach that same milieu with a persistent awareness of what is happening to us during this long-awaited period of transition. But we cannot ascribe our failure to adopt the second alternative totally to the peculiar arrangement between Harvard and Radcliffe. The non-merger presents us with more than our share of difficulties. But whatever it is here at Radcliffe that is preventing us from collecting our energy, it goes far beyond corporate contracts, geography and leaflets. For the time being, the will is just not there...
...relative creative dearth like the present, a spate of revivals comes to the fore as the theater's defensive mechanism of survival. Some are delightful, some are dreadful, all are instructive; it is invariably interesting to see what the effects of time, changing values or an altered milieu have had on a classic. Some current revivals on the New York boards...
...temporal redemption, much like the one envisioned 34 years ago in C.S. Lewis' theological space fantasy Out of the Silent Planet. In Lewis' novel, the earth is the devil's territory and the prison of fallen man, quarantined by the powers and dominations of the divine milieu around it. But those who escape the silent planet can recover their cosmic orientation...
...college. Wellesley's Allen says she was patronized when she first arrived: "The attitude was, 'You are underprivileged, you are behind and need help, you are not as good as us.' " In short, says Paul Black, director of minority affairs at Northwestern, "the white-student milieu was just too different for assimilation to take place...
...follower of the ancient principles of Sufism, a mystical movement that is to Islam roughly what Hasidism is to Judaism. He believed that the soul and God are one and the same. The world, he taught the faithful, is but a tomb, temporarily separating the soul from its divine milieu. In order to release the imprisoned spirit, he taught the Sufi dervishes (Persian for beggars) to dance themselves into an ecstatic trance; all their movements were made in rhythm with the music of reed flutes, drums and tambourines...