Word: adapter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CORPS. About $190 million would be spent in the first year to find and train 40,000 boys, aged 16-21, who are illiterate, or too unskilled or ill-motivated to adapt to normal job training. The less competent half would go to rural camps for up to two years, learn the disciplines of manual labor on conservation projects, study rudimentary reading, writing, arithmetic and speech. The top half would be sent to unused military reservations for training in specific vocational skills and basic academic subjects. All would get a $30-$50 monthly living allowance and a separation payment...
While even Salinger was not yet used to the idea, official Washington was swept by surprise at the suddenness of his move. Pierre Salinger was one of the few Jack Kennedy intimates who had managed to adapt smoothly to the contrasting mood and manner of President Johnson. Yet at 3 p.m. one afternoon, Salinger told Johnson that he was quitting to run for the Democratic senatorial nomination in California. By 6 p.m., Johnson had named as Salinger's successor George E. Reedy, a gregarious former United Press reporter and a loyal L.B.J. aide for 13 years (see PRESS...
...those who chose "political responsibility" and joined the Nazis, Miss Arendt said, it was remarkably easy to adapt the "cornerstone of the new law: 'thou shalt kill.' At the very moment of its collapse, morality stood exposed in its original meaning--as mores, a set of habits which could be changed as easily as table manners...
Marni gets no credit for this; her Lady contract even forbids her to talk about her work. She did, however, go to bat for a slice of the royalties on the West Side Story album and won her fair share. But, she says, "it gets harder and harder to adapt yourself to the person you're dubbing. Eventually you want to play the character yourself." Last week Marni Nixon was actually mouthing the words as well as singing them. Appearing with the Seattle Symphony in Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire and the Poulenc-Cocteau short opera, The Human Voice...
...with it. Oh my, yes. If we want to attract young folk, we have to go where they are, to the coffee bars, to their haunts. I can see us making use of all kinds of music-guitars and banjos, and that sort of thing. If we have to adapt to be understood by the beardies and weirdies, all right, we must. We have to get with...