Word: milieu
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...Frandson's belief that each of the school's 4,255 courses should be titled and designed like a new television series-to grab the viewer's attention. In the extension school, therefore, a course in American history from 1940 to 1950 is called "The Cultural Milieu of a Decade of War and Peace: a nostalgic reappraisal of an era that dramatically changed our world...
While there is much the poor must do for themselves, some obstacles are not easily overcome. Most of the poor nations, for example, are burdened with a tropical climate, which lowers both soil fertility and levels of human exertion. Many also lack the cultural milieu to reinforce individual initiative and social concern for progress. "What holds back many LDCs is the people who live there," says P.T. Bauer. "Material achievement depends primarily on people's attitudes, motivation and mores. In many LDCs, popular mores are often uncongenial to economic development; there is widespread fatalism and torpor and preference...
...Jewish kid growing up in a heavily WASP milieu, I always had a stormy love-hate relationship with Christmas. I had a passion for all the romantic trappings--the wreaths and the holly and the trees and the tinsel--but somehow I could never let myself go completely. When I was seven or so, I fixated on the idea of a tree, tall and green and smelling of pine forests. I nagged my mother about it so much that she finally went out and bought me something that was two feet high and silver and smelled of plastic. Somehow that...
...nursing-home Robert Welch who told me he was "too busy to talk--all these manuscripts to go over, they need guidance from me, the monthly Bulletin to write," gesturing almost helplessly at the piles of paperwork his own bureaucracy was feeding him, was out-of-place in a milieu that had been built...
...sophomores in the Yard and juniors and seniors in the river Houses, states that there is a "tyrannous minority in the Quad" which is "female or femaleinfluenced" and wants to preserve the Quad as it is and to "impose its will on male captives and women who flee the milieu as soon as they...