Word: milieu
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...Alexandrian mode on two planes simultaneously: the contemporary "sensual city" and the historical "world of Hellenism." His alienation from the real city is most visible in the erotic poetry which sprang from his own experiences--those of a homosexual necessarily but bitterly shackled by the conventions of his milieu. The evolution of these poems from composition to publication reveals a progression from cautious ambiguity to an increasingly more explicit statement of the poet's passions. Such an advancement mirrored Cavafy's developing belief in honest acceptance of one's passions and surroundings, in bowing to the inevitability of circumstance...
...giving hope to all who be lieve that it is possible to make an appealing and potentially highly popular film without spending millions - or even a million. Director John Avildsen shows here a stronger naturalistic gift than Joe or Save the Tiger demonstrated. When it sticks to its natural milieu the picture has simple and engaging strength. Only when it and the title character try to move up in class too quickly do they lose...
...attempting to trace the chain of causality that led to the arrests of two weeks ago, yet theories abound. Some students--especially those most deeply involved in the pro-strike activities of the past several weeks--feel that the strike has thrown the campus back to a '60s-like milieu; the classic confrontation between Administration and Radical Student is again being played out, but with an internal labor dispute, rather than a war, the principal bone of contention. They point out, perhaps justifiably, that the only movement in the strike--which began, for nearly 350 service workers, in early July...
...course, she says, the individual decides whether she will use the experience to relate to her social and political milieu or provincially shut out her neighbor from her private experience...
...books that I have read all of and read with enjoyment." The author was unimpressed. "To him," reports McShane, "Memoirs of Hecate County proved that Edmund Wilson did not know how to write, and he poked fun at the solemnity of Auden's remarks about the 'critical milieu...