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Wrote Munich's Süddeutsche Zeitung: "Nothing about them suggests the milieu in which they were born ... in the midst of war and destruction Franz Marc's gaze turned inward . . . from crystalline lines he lets the Birth of a Cicada come into being. Animals appear: deer, horses . . . and the feather-light body of a swallow . . . Already far away from presenting the material, the visible, the drawings try to grasp a spiritual reality and make the objects transparent...
...Paris moviegoers were flocking to see Marty after critics raved that at last Hollywood was showing the fascinating spectacle of an authentic U.S. working-class milieu. But there were some dissenting opinions. Wrote the critic of the longhair Cahiers du Cinema: "In its attempt at neorealism, Marty reveals what daily life is like for the relatively prosperous working-class American . . . I was terrified. This 'American Way of Life' seemed like a foretaste of hell...
...younger generation in the city, the major preoccupation is the housing shortage (caused principally by rent control imposed to protect the younger generation after World War I). Campaigns are organized for rooms for students, newspapers are filled with appeals for apartments, and common dinner conversation in any milieu invariably turns to talk of the housing shortage. Last year the Paris police department made a sampling of living conditions, concluded that 37.3% of the city's population was living in dwellings judged "insufficient" or "very insufficient." For the younger generation things are even worse: 55.5% of those married between...
...American living abroad in direct contact with Europeans in their own milieu always makes comparisons, and I am no exception. I would like to pass on one of these observations because it shows up a gross inadequacy in a very important domain of American education--language training. As far as proficiency in foreign languages is concerned, most Americans are like wet hens compared to their Dutch counterparts...
While the milieu of the novel commonly attracts readers by its elegance, it must appeal to a novelist for the neatly tailored setting it provides for any plot. Financially and socially secure, its inhabitants are free from drearier worries and can afford to find their problems solely on the intriguing plane of personal relationships. This is the focus of Love Is a Bridge, showing the barriers of pride, frustration, and selfishness which isolate one person from another. Separating each individual, Mr. Flood seems to say, there is a natural gap which only the warmth and understanding of love can bridge...