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...addition, Naisbitt said, the job market will place less value on the specialist and more on the "generalist who can adapt...
...correspondents. Now this massive selection of Waugh's journalism displays him fully dressed for his reading public. There are thus no naked surprises in this volume, but it is fascinating all the same: a chronicle both of tumultuous decades and of Waugh's refusal to adapt his clothes to changing tastes...
...Constitution has stayed sturdy and relevant in large part because the Justices have been able to adapt it to what Jus tice Holmes called "the felt necessities of the time." Such a task is delicate, to be undertaken with reverence for established principle and the slow evolution of fundamental rights. If the court becomes a mere political instrument, it will lose its legitimacy; if the Justices become the blunt tools of the Presidents who appoint them their judgments will be just as transitory It is reassuring that, once ensconced in the high court, so many of the Brethren develop...
...grill person at Tommy's Lunch, a late-night eatery which adjoins Cahaly's downplayed the importance of loyalty, saying students would likely adapt to Sage's without much hardship...
...Yorker as a cartoon sorter; even before the huge success seven years later of his first novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms, he was famous in Manhattan literary circles for his lyrical, funny and gothic short stories, nearly all on the theme of loneliness. He went on to adapt his stories for the stage, produce screenplays and write nonfiction works. Of In Cold Blood, his horrific 1965 account of the murder of a Kansas family by two drifters, he boasted that he had created a new genre, the nonfiction novel. As much a member of the glitterati as the literati, Capote...