Word: adapters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stood on the burning deck was a moron, Professor Harry Allen Overstreet once told a child-study group. "He did not have the intelligence to adapt himself to a changing situation." In 1939, convinced that modern man is a boy on the burning deck of the aoth century, he quit his philosophy post at Manhattan's City College and turned to writing and lecturing. Author Overstreet soon gathered a new class bigger than any teacher's dream...
...course it's easier for these domestic industries to lobby for tariff hikes than to lower production costs or adapt their products to changes in consumer taste. But this is no reason why the United States should continue to protect small sectors of the economy at the sacrifice of global objectives. Playing Protection at the domestic consumer's expense is bad enough, but it is inexcusable to do so at the expense of the free world's security...
...bridges, and a "marimba eroica," with keys as large as ironing boards. From a gallows-like frame hung "cloud-chamber bowls"; Partch had salvaged them from the discards of the University of California radiation laboratory. He added an ordinary clarinet and saxophone (Partch has not yet learned how to adapt wind instruments to his scale), and a special cello and bass. An added dash of unconventionality: the student musicians (abetted by some professionals from Oakland) wore black robes and hoods...
...tape recorder. When used in the home, the film will catch baby's first coos and gurgles as well as his early toddlings. The sound can be erased and changed for each showing of the film. A salesman exhibiting his company's product can adapt his canned spiel to fit the weak spots of the individual customer...
While appearing as an expert witness in the 1925 Scopes anti-evolution trial in Dayton, Tennessee, Mather saw "the bigotry of so-called religious men." He has tried to adapt his scientific research with a striving for higher ethical ideals. Writing in the Christian Century, he notes: "No wonder there is a widespread desire for more Christianity in higher education. If civilization is to be saved from catastrophe, the ethical and social consciousness of each individual must be greatly strengthened, renewed, and improved. Where better to concentrate upon that task than in our colleges and universities...