Word: milieu
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...mostly a slow, cautious biography, elegantly attentive to Edwardian decor and dress. It slights Nijinsky's melodramatic story and, finally, offends with its relentless reductionism. There are times when excesses of good taste become a kind of bad taste, a falsification of a subject's spirit and milieu. This is never more true than when the troubles of a genius are presented in boring and conventional terms...
...sorts of difficult scenes-awful school social events, boring classroom discussions, dormitory gossip sessions-grants them a waywardness and a resonance that are rare. The deft economy with which he characterizes his heroine's classmates, preventing them from being mere types, is admirable. Strange and distant though his milieu is, it makes a rewarding and instructive place to visit...
...detail in even insignificant tactical decisions." On the other hand, he also pays diplomats the haughty compliment of arguing that it is up to them to take up some of the cerebral slack left by politicians. "Before World War I," he says, "world leaders were of the same intellectual milieu. Today the qualities necessary to become a national leader are not necessarily the same as those needed to be a national leader. So diplomats are unusually important...
...offsetting the elaborate costumes and the seven beautiful girls cast in the chorus line. In these scenes, Andrew Sellon gives an outstanding performance as the ghoulish Master of Ceremonies. Appearing in heavily rouged whiteface, the host welcomes the other characters, as well as the audience, into the club's milieu, and the brutal world of Hitler's Brownshirts...
...fact, is and always has been the manic-romantic, the legion of brillants who have ranged from the old salt who convinced the Spanish that he had discovered a passage to India to the faded "conquistador" who tilted at windmills. Not quite in their league, but certainly in the milieu, is Luis Cabrillo, a young disenchanted adventurer who has been kicked out of 23 schools and almost as many jobs. But the semifictional Luis owns one of the best brains in Spain. In The Eldorado Network, the fourth novel by English Author Derek Robinson, Luis becomes...