Word: milieu
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...guilty as charged. The sentence: ten years at hard labor; a fine of 50,000 francs ($14,000). "Nothing has prepared me for this," said the broken, tuberculous ex-hero, "neither my education, my children, my family life nor my military career. I fell into a milieu I didn't know." Murmured his lawyer: "The eternal parachutist...
...culture is typically narrow," Mills continues, "his imagination often limited. Men can achieve position in this field although they are recruited from the lower-middle class, a milieu not remarkable for grace of mind, flexibility or breadth of culture, or scope of imagination...
...After he is established in a college, it is unlikely that the professor's milieu and resources, are the kind that will facilitate, much less create, independence of mind. He is a member of a petty hierarchy, almost completely closed in by its middle-class environment and its segregation of intellectual from social life...
...Love's Labour's Lost" does not read as well as it plays, and thus the production itself is especially lauditory. Director Albert Marre has given it a Shavian setting; the characters dress in 19th century costume and move in a "Man and Superman" milieu without the least offense to context. "Love's Labour's Lost" would be young in any century, if it received the kind 'of delicate treatment which the Brattle Company has administered. Grace and delicacy are just what the Brattle group has given...
...further and said that Shaw's characters were unreal, that they were no more than walking arguments. This is a half-truth, though it is a fact that Shaw did not believe in character for its own sake. Few Victorian writers did. His eye for the middle-class milieu was perfect. He knew exactly the values beneath the humbug and was only rash in assuming that men and women can live without it. Candida is an excellent portrait of a woman and so is the delightful Major Barbara. The theater, and comedy above all, has always dealt in types...