Word: milieu
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...means. He says Bernard Malamud's writing, for instance, is "claustrophobic" and smacks too much of the ghetto. But is anyone's writing more claustrophobic than Jane Austen's? Is The Magic Barrel, a story of a Jewish matchmaker and his young client, more parochial in its problems and milieu than Emma...
...showcase of social alternatives is unclear. His montage of dissolution is cute, repetitive and incoherent. Miller used a similar pattern skillfully in The Cool World a, novel about a young Harlem gang leader whose life became tragic when Miller contrasted his talents, intelligence and aspiration against a hopeless milieu. But the skill is gone...
...Affair is an affair of justice, treated with a Galsworthy-like concern for the niceties of fair play. Judiciously adapted by Ronald Millar from the novel by C. P. Snow, the play relies on tension rather than passion, and its evocation of an English university milieu is donnish, literate and civilized...
This speciously reasoned finale mars, but does not mangle The Affair. Impeccably performed, it pungently evokes its donnish milieu and nobly invokes man's tireless quest to make justice prevail...
...imaginary student was gifted in the gentle art of placing in context, he might note that this vocabulary and syntax occurs again and again in different essays in In Defense of Reading. He might conclude that all the authors were products of a similar and limited, milieu, one which somehow made originality, both of perception and expression, difficult...