Word: adaptions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pictures anything more controversial than Lassie and Ma Hardy's apple pies, was now courting social themes: Intruder in the Dust (about the Negro problem); Border Incident (about Mexican laborers who enter the U.S. illegally); an antitotalitarian story; a script about an American Indian (Robert Taylor) trying to adapt himself to modern society...
Light is studied in the same way. Since human eyes get tired when forced to adapt themselves continually to contrasts of brightness and dimness, lighting experts are trying to tone down the bright spots and light up the dim spots. A properly lighted room, by modern standards, is apt to have walls painted in varied shades and colors. The light comes from large, diffuse sources. Instruments such as typewriters and blackboards are apt to be colored in a way that does not contrast too much with the rest of the "light environment." (But light experts are careful not to eliminate...
This is not to say that Jordan violates his own principles of line play, however. He just just has had to adapt them to a physical framework that the casual observer would associate more with stolid immovability than shiftiness. He has had plenty of opportunity to do so in his long and varied athletic past, which extends back to the late '20s, when he was an all around school star at Clare, Michigan...
...Gilbert libretti were written exclusively for the stage, and no amount of editing could possibly adapt them successfully to the screen. J. Arthur Rank's attempt is almost bizzare. Its cast is a mixture of stage and screen actors, each group obliged to assume the function of the other, and neither succeeding very well...
...soil men laugh at the Neo-Malthusian doctrine that man must adapt himself to soil, and live with it as helplessly as wildlife. Man is not the servant of the soil, they say. He is its master...