Word: milieu
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...Dubliners: the region itself with its hills, rivers, fogs, and wildlife, is a vital presence. Pancake constantly includes owls, opossums, and snakes, ironweed and sycamores: even buried bones and fossils in describing the lives he portrays. The situations of his strong. reticent, and trapped characters embody the unique milieu, but the problems they struggle with transcend it to reach universality...
...American democrat, the self-reliant nobleman of nature who trailblazes into a wilderness of the spirit and emerges stronger and wiser. Alda's modern pathfinder is also very much a man of the mid-20th century: liberally educated and not reluctant to parade it, perversely triumphant in a milieu he blithely declares himself unfit to inhabit, japing and shambling after women, with a quip and an invisible cigar, like a Wasp Groucho. In later episodes, Hawkeye occasionally looked as if he were campaigning for canonization. But he could still bend, and come near breaking, whether in realizing...
Meanwhile, Sagan has remained imperturbably on course, charting the manners of France's Beautiful People who inhabit the milieu of high fashion, advertising and show business. Those of her novels that appeared in the U.S., such as A Certain Smile, Aimez-Vous Brahms? and The Unmade Bed, came across as high-class pop fiction à la française with predictable complements of cuckolds, betrayed mistresses and golden-eyed lovers...
...rarely have a clear notion of the technical features of their own legislation, Grieder claims, but they also are usually powerless against the forces that distort and emasculate even the most comprehensive proposals--inertia, political horse-trading, special interest greed, and just plain human error. In such an "anarchic" milieu, Grieder says, grand conceptions about "the way the world works"--in Stockman's case, supply-side economics--fall by the wayside, and their beliefs lapse into cynical despair...
...stand best on their own, unadorned, and that is the way they appear in the album, with just a minimum of technical refinement. Beginning with the title track, a bone chiller about Charles Starkweather and Caril Fugate, the ten songs in Nebraska are set in the smalltown, working-class milieu that Springsteen has made his own. There, all lives are dead ends, but the turnpikes go on forever. Springsteen certainly has mined this territory before, but he makes the repetition work for him: he can get the same sort of mythic resonance from this setting that John Ford took...