Word: adaptable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gatsby presents a different problem. The valuable 20s ambience is there to be tapped, but in practical adaptation terms, the bare bones of the book's plot .are slender. It concerns the tragedy that follows when Jay Gatsby, a mysterious bootlegger, tries to use his money to revive a wartime romance with the rich, spoiled Daisy, who has since married even richer. Their crossed purposes are refracted in the lives of those near them: Daisy's philandering husband Tom, his mistress and her husband. At the end Tom and Daisy retreat into their "vast carelessness"; the others...
While the difficulties faced by most foreign immigrants and their descendants lessened in time, certain ethnic groups were much less able than others to adapt to Boston, and found themselves stuck at the bottom of the economic ladder. The Irish and the Italians were distinctly less upwardly mobile than other immigrant groups. On the other hand, 75 per cent of all second-generation Russian-Americans--many of whom were Jewish--finished their careers in white collar jobs...
...Your article "They Shall Not Pass" [Dec. 31] implies that we continue to manufacture failures in our public schools. Let us take a look at one of the causes. Since we ask the child to adapt to the system in public education, it seems only proper that we give him a fair chance. Dr. Bakalis thinks that going back to the basics will solve the problem. I would like to suggest making kindergarten mandatory, and testing to determine if a child is ready for kindergarten. Nothing succeeds like success, and "readiness...
...much of his craft at the Last Chance, and the take from the gate paid part of his tuition. Playing at the club gave him an opportunity to develop an easy stage rapport. "I consider working with audiences an education," he said. "You have to learn the ability to adapt yourself to different types of people." But the nightclub environment became stifling. "I was becoming Brock Walsh the live jukebox. All people wanted to hear was Elton John. That was the least dangerous stuff to do, if you didn't want to offend anybody...
...while singing the U.S.C. fight song, and popping him extra hard in practice to let him know that he was playing with the big boys. Trouble was, the Bills were far less accomplished at jolting opponents. Simpson, fresh from two starring appearances in the Rose Bowl, had to painfully adapt to playing with a loser...