Word: adaptation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...task is not to adapt Him to the world but to convert the world to Him . . . Times of crisis are days of the Lord if God can find men and women who are ready and unafraid to speak His truth. Old, yet ever new, the church remains the instrument of God's loving purpose...
...must adapt ourselves to accept such unfamiliar developments as a war which ends without total victory for any party, but only for a principle. Such a victory, although it may not be considered as satisfactory by those who still believe in unconditional surrender ... is a full vindication of those brave men who have sacrificed their lives...
University officials who have criticized the new plan point out that having official entries for each House in Claverly will defeat one of the Hall's purposes--to adapt to the varying House applications from year to year. Under the present system Housemasters never know exactly how many rooms they will have free until September, since some drop out of college during the summer...
...Bell emphasizes that individuals differ enormously in their ability to "hold" liquor, e.g., a scrawny, 120-pounder may be able to outdrink a heavyweight wrestler. But is the body is repeatedly subjected to massive doses of alcohol, sooner or later it can no longer adapt itself to the stress, and metabolism breaks down. Warns Dr. Bell: "Anybody who repeatedly drinks so that he has a higher concentration than 50 milligrams should take a look at his drinking habits." Always moderate in his own drinking, Dr. Bell has cut down still more since he started to see milligrams in every glass...
...Democratic Manner. All the delegates were concerned with the problems of "religious obedience," i.e., how to adapt centuries-old monastic rules to the practical governance of modern young Americans. Said Villanova College's Father Robert E. Regan, O.S.A.: "We are, in a rather deep and distinctive fashion, a freedom-loving and liberty-loving people . . . The average young man candidate for the religious life . . . has been raised in a climate of independence-political, civil and, to a rather large degree, domestic . . . Is it asking too much that American religious superiors, out of deference to the American temperament, approach the matter...