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...from a Traveller (Harper; $4) contains a smattering of the vast correspondence he carried on with friends and relatives-often from archaeological campsites in such spots as the Gobi desert. Unlike his metaphysical masterwork The Phenomenon of Man (TIME, Dec. 14. 1959) or his mystical treatise on The Divine Milieu (TIME, Feb. ID. 1961), Teilhard's letters are largely free of neologisms, contain wise and witty comments on a world he clearly loved, and clearly saw sub specie aeternitatis. A sampling of Teilhardisms...
...college teaching is "a peculiar profession." He thinks "the basic oddity...is the common truth that thinking is a peculiar way to earn a living." He cites the teacher's irregular working hours, and the fact that he "deals directly with a minority of the population," in a milieu sharply marked off, in the public mind, from other occupations...
...scapegoats. The influence of Chekhov on Hellman's play has been pointed out before, and it is strongest in the way characters reveal themselves without self-description, and in the brevity of exposition. Unfortunately, the dull set at the Charles did not enhance the sense of a crumbling milieu that Autumn Garden evokes, and the three-sided stage robbed the audience of 33 per cent of the performances...
...works in a traveling fair and delivers her body each Saturday night to the winner of a raffle. The fair itself is alive with superb detail, from the smallest of watermelon seeds to the largest of the paunchy Italian farmers with hot breath and sausage fingers. In this milieu, Sophia is not a star showing off but a figure that belongs...
...last Juliette returns, after a week on the land during which she met only mountebanks, cripples and beggars. Like Persephone coming back from the underworld, she rejoins the crew of L'Atalante; she has come to her own milieu, which now seems more real, larger and more natural than the mist-hidden landscape of the riverbanks that glide so swiftly...