Word: adaptable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Winick explains, until people have acquired what psychiatrists call sexual identity, and until they recognize the reality of their sex, they cannot accept or cope with other realities. Says Winick: "America's survival potential may be substantially undercut if unisex continues because it will impair our ability to adapt to new situations...
Coach Bill McCurdy explained afterwards that inexperience was probably a major factor in his sophomores' demise. They are still trying to adapt to the five-mile distance, and the combination of the demanding Van Cortlandt Park course and Penn made Saturday a tough...
...ORCHESTRA is in many ways like a pet which grows so used to one master that it is unable to adapt to a new one. Any orchestra conducted by Toscanini was, by definition, an orchestra designed and molded by Toscanini, used to his style, his interpretations, his way of life. Barbirolli could never have hoped to succeed under such circumstances, and indeed...
...present in simple layman's terms the latest advances in human sciences. His technique seemed vastly oversimplified to some, but others found it both charming and instructive-as when he labeled the boy on the burning deck a moron, because "he did not have the intelligence to adapt himself to a changing situation...
...sexual equilibrium. But then would could tolerate Eliot Gould's lines in Getting Straight: "She's a good scientist, lousy lay"; Candice Bergen's lines, "I didn't even feel like a date-you didn't buy me popcorn" or anonymous gems: "Women have that charming ability to adapt to whatever man they're with...