Word: milieu
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...finally there was the competition from the fast-talking, native American intellectuals of Camelot, the hard-nosed, problem-solving, pragmatically arrogant men who rejected the notion of failure and believed they could master the world with the American military machine. In this milieu. Kissinger-the advocate of negotiations and graduated threats-was very much an outcast...
...surface problem is a familiar one: Czech expatriate Forman is not familiar with the American milieu. His Greenwich Villagers look and sound like Jones Beach burliness, his suburban middle-class home is unrelievedly, unfunnily tacky; not sterile, but completely manufactured, though he films it gently, with soft lighting...
...sick of it all, has announced the permanent closing of both the Fillmores West and East, two houses which greatly helped rock come of age in the '60s (TIME, May 10). Facing the Stones are as many unanswered questions as Mick Jagger has sneers and snarls. Is the milieu that nurtured the Stones-a young, despairing world of violence, ugliness, drugs and an unmistakable impulse toward self-destruction-still out there waiting for the anti-heroes of old? Will the tribes still gather to enjoy the Stones' personal exhortation to reduce civilization to pot-smoking ruins...
...familiar noises of a traffic jam, the jet whines and flight announcements of a busy airport, the sounds of a crowded lobby, a phone booth at Grand Central Station or Macy's department store, an array of long-distance operators from major U.S. cities, a hospital or office milieu-the whole...
...actually has no character at all, make Being There much more than the heavyhanded satiric fairy tale it might appear to be. More than an antihero, Chance is a non-character-the ultimate spectator-who reflects Kosinski's concern about the future of free will in the dense milieu of an advanced industrial society...