Word: adaptions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...process is amusing to watch. And, like the perennial Harvard problem, it spawns new and innovative solutions. I suppose I could adapt my standard response to "How'd you get into Harvard?" for use at the Journal. Next time people ask me how I got the job, I'll just say I slept with the editor...
...people cope with technological change [VIEWPOINT, May 26] was, "Computers don't take people's jobs by acting like people." Kasparov's frustrating moment did not come after his initial loss; that moment arrived when he realized that even though he was the consummate professional, he couldn't adapt and think like his nemesis. HENRY SIKORSKI Garden City...
...John Henry is too dramatic a metaphor. People rarely die trying to outrun technology. They usually adapt, moving either up the skills-and-income scale or down it. Perhaps a better metaphor is Virginia Lee Burton's classic children's story of Mike Mulligan and his steam shovel, Mary Anne. Outmoded by diesel models, Mary Anne retires in the cellar she has just dug for the new town hall. She becomes the building's heater. And Mike Mulligan finds gainful employment, though not by mastering diesel technology. He works contentedly alongside Mary Anne, as a janitor...
Plainness ran deeper than taste. It sometimes grew out of religious conviction--formal severity was built into the Puritan creed, for instance. But it also sprang from the social necessities of American life: the need to make and mend things for oneself, to fit and adapt to local materials. And it acquired a political dimension as metaphor...
Judaism in America cannot survive the way Hepps wants it to. Its choices are to adapt or perish. Adapting means, as Dershowitz argues, emphasizing Jewish customs without condemning intermarriage. Hepps fears that this policy will lead to the gradual erosion of the Jewish culture. We disagree with her opinion, however, is that Hepps's ideas would, if implemented, contribute to the demise of Jewish culture and would ruin many lives along the way. --John Bronsteen '97 --Scott A. Chesin...