Mosley shares a post-war milieu with Raymond Chandler; he excels at hard-bitten yet noble characters and economical prose.
Barbara may have lived in a post-war milieu in which there were not enough husbands to go around, but these conditions must have existed in many times and places without producing an equivalent to the splendid British spinster.
Staying non-aligned with the West makes sense even in the post-Cold War international milieu.
Her friends were labourers, actors, journalists, Communists - a radical pre-war California milieu so accurately described in her third and most autobiographical novel, The Western Coast (1972), that, novelist Frederick Busch wrote in his introduction, "a number of intellectuals of the 1970s averted their eyes" when it was published.
Obviously, part of a war's cultural milieu reflects contemporary modes in the countries involved.
"For me, I was born in France after the war; I was in the milieu of Structuralist thinkers.
"I disliked intensely a certain tradition in Polish culture -- right-wing, clericalist, anti-Semitic -- and belonged to the left milieu during the war," he explained.
The explosion of automobile traffic that followed the end of World War II provided the perfect milieu for a song memorializing the journey "from Chicago to LA, more than two thousand miles all the way".
He was ill-at-ease in the philosophical milieu of post-war Britain which was, as he saw it, fixated with trivial linguistic concerns dictated by Wittgenstein, whom he considered to be his nemesis.
During my trip, I spent quite a bit of time speaking with educators, and as the trip ended in the midst of such unfortunate circumstances, I started to wonder how education systems may be contributing to shaping a cultural milieu that produces intolerance, war and terrorism.
It's tempting to relate Barzun's skepticism about recent cultural developments (he's inclined to regard the provocations of later artists, from John Cage to Damien Hirst, as leaves from a tree that was planted before the First World War) to the intensity of his childhood milieu and its abrupt disappearance.
