Word: adaptational
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Lezek Kolanowski, the eminent Polish Marxist philosopher, reminds us that "language cannot be compared with a transparent glass through which one can contemplate the 'objective' wealth of reality. It is a set of tools we use to adapt ourselves to reality and to adapt it to our needs." This is why Popa's work touches on that close edge of experience or why it lies just beneath the surface of all things: the intention is to prevent confusion by celebrating an alliance with the words themselves. These poets, then, are proletarians, and their knowledge of alienation far exceeds...
...uprooted and destroyed in Russia, it was moving toward a new, foreign land. As Lenin lay on his deathbed in 1924, his philosophy had already stolen out of Moscow and crossed the Sinkiang Mountains to the old Manchu empire. Those who seized upon Lininism in China were impelled to adapt it to an unfamiliar environment of rural and backward peasants and imbue it with new organizational impulse if it was to succeed. And yet, as Mao wrote in 1930, those who became Leninists viewed the revolution as something only barely beyond their grasp: a ship at sea whose mast...
According to Walter L. Milne, assistant to the chairman of the M.I.T. Corporation, the Thompson firm was chosen because of its "demonstrated ability to adapt sensitively to its surroundings...
...year-old country has ever had, dismisses the insurgency as mere banditry. In fact, it has racial and religious overtones. Moslem emirates in the north ruled Chad before the French conquest, and the black, predominantly Christian Sara tribesmen in the south were their servants. The Arab herdsmen, who never adapted to French rule, are trying to overthrow their former slaves, who managed to adapt very well...
...been officially named the Midi, but many fashionplates have unkinder words for it. "Extraordinarily ugly," said Mrs. William F. Buckley. Opined a Roman beauty: "I hate it, I'm disgusted by it, I think it's horrible" -adding sagely, "If it becomes real fashion I'll adapt myself to it." Said Mrs. Gianni Agnelli: "I only hope the designers put some slits in it." As for Charlotte Ford Niarchos: "I'll wait to see what Paris...