Word: adapt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cross-cultural adaptations, he said, are difficult, and there are limitations both on a student's ability to adapt to the College and on the College's ability to adapt to the student. Peterson denied that the University's policy towards Chicanos "is in any way racist...
...cannot wait for natural selection to change him, some scientists warn, because the process is much too slow. Yale Physiologist José Delgado likens the human animal to the dinosaur: insufficiently intelligent to adapt to his changing environment. Caltech Biophysicist Robert Sinsheimer calls men "victims of emotional anachronisms, of internal drives essential to survival in a primitive past, but undesirable in a civilized state." Thus, by his own efforts, man must sharpen his intellect and curb his aboriginal urges, especially his aggressiveness...
...concentrate on teaching a thinking game. You have to adapt to the strengths of your players, and the guys here at Harvard are strong on brains. They know how to think out on the court, and they pick up new shots very easily," Barnaby said...
...Harvard, Johnson concedes that he has found it difficult to adapt to the vicissitudes of student politics. "People consider me apathetic," he claims, "but I've tried to understand what aims people are trying to achieve. Still, I really don't see the reasoning behind most...
...disaster." No two people today recall quite the same version of the young rabbi's rambling, extemporaneous sermon, but most recall that he quoted from rock lyrics, waved his arms prophet-style, peppered his talk with "hells" and "damns." Reform Judaism, he said, had lost its ability to adapt: "We've frozen the form and killed the spirit." The congregation was both delighted and vexed. "He's great," said one woman. "He's crazy," said her husband...