Word: milieu
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...surprisingly worthwhile exercise in suspense, a bright, brisk horror show that someone over the age of 16 can sit through enjoyably. And profitably, since it provides an acute, cautionary portrait not only of an all too recognizable lunatic of our time, but of the enviable people and milieu that, viewed from his furnished room, drive him crazy. -By Richard Schickel
...will play it by ear. But he will not allow the chips to fall as they may. Hamlin belongs in the tradition of the self-made. And Harvard has proved an appropriate milieu for a proud ex-Marine. He has dissolved the tension between "We" and "Me" by choosing the latter, without hesitation or prevarication. Yet he maintains a fundamental unselfishness and deep loyalty to those who have helped...
...happen before should happen now." Some were orthodox, some reformed, most were poor, a few wealthy: many clustered in the big cities and universities, some lived in villages, and a few stayed on the farm. Some came to America, apparently taking the big risk of confronting a completely new milieu and abandoning comfortable customs (by late 19th- and early 20th-century standards...
There is more at stake here than simple laziness. The adaptation makes much of the childish contentment Oblomov found at his doting mother's knee. As the film intercuts the adult story with the dozing country milieu of the boy's intense but innocent love, one comes to understand that Oblomov's objections to modernism are principled. Once he actually knew a better world that he cannot help trying to reembrace...
...make it impossible for a person to know if the man in the next seat or next apartment is worth getting to know or is a homicidal maniac. In the towns, by God, the fund of common knowledge about nearly everyone was richly and sometimes intrusively detailed. The urban milieu has its advantages-individual privacy and freedom-but it can exact a heavy psychic price. Citizens who become secrets to each other dead-end in narcissism, cut off from the nation's public life...