Word: adaptibility
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...least half his wish. He grew "sadder and older" but no more willing to adapt to the demands of the world than he had been as a teenager. The price paid for this refusal becomes ominously clear in The Collected Letters. It is one thing for Peter Pan never to grow up. A poet with a wife, three children and a dependency on booze cannot afford that luxury. His letters requesting, demanding, begging for money grew increasingly embarrassing. "I am a deserving cause," he insisted. He hit on the scheme of "getting my living-money from people and not from...
...great deal of attention. In some schools, students have not even received any thoughtful communication to inform them of what they are supposed to accomplish through their course of study. In most, faculty members do not make it a regular practice to come together and consider how they might adapt their teaching, their class assignments, and their methods of evaluation to help their students achieve the goals toward which their education is supposedly directed...
...ingredients for an afternoon of poor performances were in place, but Harvard ignored them and instead produced a magnificent statement on its ability to adapt to arctic conditions...
...later years, he is more of a reactor than an initiator, an amused but always clear-eyed observer. Part of that ironic aloofness may come from his childhood. His mother lived from hand to mouth, and he never knew who his father was. He was forced to adapt, and he has been doing that ever since, making a brilliant career out of pouring himself into a myriad of molds. He is now a little startled, however, to discover some of his mannerisms in his son Matthew, 45, who is also an actor. "A good actor," says his father, "although...
...Dean and her followers. Unlike the miners, who attracted considerable sympathy during their strike, the printers are perceived by the public as overpaid and underworked. "Fleet Street is one of the great bastions of Luddism," observed a senior government official. "The print unions, which have rejected every attempt to adapt to the future, are now washed up on a very lonely shore...