Word: adapter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that, like members of the State Department and AID, we are victims of the disease that Senator Fulbright has diagnosed as "the arrogance of power." And we have come to feel that they are more right than wrong, although of course there are many Volunteers whose ability to adapt themselves to the culture render them immune to such generalized criticism. The more deeply we examine ourselves the more clearly we realize that we are part of a culture whose pride in itself contains, as a corollary, contempt for others. Our role in this country is a demonstration of that trait...
...Russians (Rachmani noff, Horowitz) and the poetic, relaxed, scholarly Austro-Germans (Schnabel, Serkin). Graffman typifies what may some day be known as the American school, but isn't yet: a synthesis of the best pianists from prewar Russia and Germany, with a range of styles that adapt to any music. "Rachmaninoff," he says, "approached everything the same way. But I approach Prokofiev totally differently from Beethoven, and Beethoven differently from Bach. The difference in approach has to do with many things: rhythm, phrasing, even the tone of a single note...
...writing about convicts, as in writing about anything else, there are few substitutes for experience. Malcolm Braly did a stretch for armed robbery at San Quentin, and knows only too well that prison is the only world a convict has. Cons either adapt to it or it destroys them. In On the Yard, this inescapable fact is driven home by the sadistic breaking of "Chilly Willy," a boss con who traffics in cigarettes and Benzedrine inhalers. Prison officials frame him in a homosexual plot, and he is shunted into the psychiatric ward. Though a swift, engrossing narrative...
...choice to succeed him. De Gaulle would never, of course, detract from his own image as France's absolute ruler by openly endorsing Pompidou. But in his press conference he came as close as he ever has to anointing Pompidou by blessing "those who gathered in Lille to adapt our conceptions and inspirations to changing conditions...
...realist," Clayton explains, "I've recognized my responsibility to adapt to changing times." He is still fundamentally conservative. "We knew he would protect clearly defined Constitutional rights," says an N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund lawyer, "but we also knew he wouldn't make law." Clayton agrees, adding that "case law must come, if it comes at all, at the appeals level." He is now moving to that level...