Word: adaptation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what the legal world thought until Yale undertook the second revolution in the teaching of law. Under former Dean Hutchins and Professors Thurman Arnold and William O. Douglas, the "policy approach" was introduced in the 1920's and 1930's. Law became an instrument which the judge could adapt to certain philosophical or social ends. These men felt that it was insufficient to study cases only, without knowing the judge's own philosophical values. Thus Yale law students studied past legal decisions, but they also consciously strove to develop their own set of values, which were as important as legal...
Conant pointed out that he has had to adapt himself, however, to two distinct changes. The greater of these is that in Bonn the important events come much more rapidly and the questions have to be answered much more quickly. "The pace perhaps is about five times as fast...
...first major publication to recognize the unique significance of Burma in Southeast Asia and U Nu's great potentiality as a leader of Asian opinion to counteract the shilly-shallying of Pandit Nehru is not surprising, but it is extremely gratifying. It was my privilege to adapt the Prime Minister's play [The People Win Through] as a motion picture and to produce the film in Burma . . . Its thesis, a dramatic explanation and affirmation of the democratic process aimed at an audience of people just emerging from centuries of feudalism and colonial rule, will have a telling effect...
...they are, they may lose their heads as well." Probably not many colons in Tunisia would agree with him; they hope to stay. Whether they will be able to depends on French wisdom and skill-on the wisdom to recognize a changing order, on the skill to adapt with it. So far, the signs are not promising...
Mendès' plan for Tunisia (which, if successful, he may try to adapt for Algeria and Morocco) emerged from ten days of intensive conferences. Mendès used his favorite method of conversations à deux-knocking heads together. This time he set up two-man meetings between French officials and Arab representatives of the Neo-Destour (or Tunisian Nationalist) Party. His most useful collaborator was the Arab's No. 1 nationalist, the ascetic-looking, white-haired Habib Bourguiba, 51, exiled leader of the Neo-Destour. In an adroit move Mendès transferred Bourguiba from lonely sequestration...