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What makes L'Enfant Sauvage so interesting is that the child is not being civilized and humanized in an abstract or theoretical sense. The civilization toward which he is being inched possesses a very special race, moment, and milieu. He is being crafted into the late eighteenth-century conception of human beings. The boy is not exactly a Noble Savage, but it is impossible for Itard not to have had Rousseau in mind; the doctor many not be a poet, but he is inexorably caught up in the aftermath of the French Revolution and the birth of Romanticism. The film...
Unless she is rich and rangy, a young woman who curls up with Vogue or Harper's Bazaar is often tantalized by the sight of slender models wearing clothes beyond her budget in an opulent milieu that she can only dream of entering. If she bunks down with Rags, a new and determinedly iconoclastic fashion monthly, she will find people with bulges like her own, wearing clothes that she can afford, against backdrops as familiar as a brick wall...
...experience in the scientific fantasy. But a movie of the special effects for special effects' sake has peculiar delights and revelations as well. The pseudo-myth Science Fiction epic "This Island Earth" concerns the second category of fear, fear of Alien Invasion. It Jeans very heavily on its 1956 milieu for inspiration, yet despite, or perhaps because of inanity, it reveals other immediate aspects of the mentality behind the race to the moon. While the flick is apparently a cartoon show of sheer escapism, the political situation somehow manages to insinuate it self...
...than heredity. In addition, Medvedev has criticized Soviet mail censorship, travel restrictions and the lack of free exchange of scientific ideas with the West. Wrote Solzhenitsyn: "It is precisely his sensitivity to injustice and to stupidity that are made to seem a sick deviation-poor adjustment to the social milieu. If you do not think as you are supposed to think, that means you are insane! And well-adjusted people? They should all think alike...
...group, in order to enjoy the Cronin's-like atmosphere of the Pops bar during intermission. Second, and infinitely more important, he checks on the groups in attendance on the night he is planning to go, in order to provide himself with a more interesting milieu. I violated this cardinal rule a few weeks ago, and found myself in the middle of a delegation from the American Gastroenterological Association. Had I come a night earlier, I might have seen the Exeter Andover Alumni, or even the Dana Hall alumnae...