Word: adapt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...neighborhood for entertainment. We are also the people who destroyed the neighborhoods by getting into our trucks, buses and cars and moving. With this new non-neighborhood approach to life, might it not be better if our children are bused across town so that they will learn about adapting to a mobile society? In fact, forcing children to stay in their own neighborhoods to attend school might actually hinder their development and their ability to adapt to being well-rounded adults on wheels...
...that he even went anywhere near the story line of Love Story in the first place. In recent Boston newspaper interviews, he scorned Ryan O'Neal's performance in that film, saying that he had set ice hockey back several decades. It seems strange, then, that he would adapt the Love Story theme almost in its entirety for what he hoped would be a fresh, penetrating look at one of the two most violent games in the world...
...claiming that they too can play the blues, that they too have an experience to communicate. That white musicians have something to say can not be doubted; the problem is that many white musicians feel that they have the same things to say as black musicians. Therefore they adapt a black idiom, the blues, and try to make their music as black as possible. This imitation of black music runs along a continuum beginning with the Beatles at one end, the Rolling Stones toward the middle and Eric Burdon and Elvis Presley at the furthest extreme. No white musician, however...
...help the Viet Nam veteran adapt psychologically to civilian life, Levy believes the military should place as much emphasis on preparing the soldier for peace as it does training him for war. This, he says, could be accomplished by setting up store-front readjustment centers, which he likens to "boot camps in reverse." There, veterans about to be discharged could receive legal and psychological guidance for re-entry into the world of the civilian...
COLES APPRECIATES the complexity of the tenuous adjustments that America's poor have made to adapt to their circumstances, he can sense and has seen the trauma that accompanies any transformation in the order of things. The South Goes North is testament to such trauma. From cloistered universities, it is easy to support busing of schoolchildren; Coles has ridden the buses and knows busing is not an unadulterated good. Academic radicals support community organizing; Coles has talked to people in the communities and knows how firmly the existing order of things is ingrained in people and why change is difficult...