Word: adaptive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Young Man with a Horn (Warner), which starts out to adapt the bestselling story of a jazz musician's integrity, winds up badly in need of some integrity of its own. Suggested vaguely by the career of the late great Bix Beiderbecke, Dorothy Baker's 1938 novel told the story of a hot trumpet virtuoso who is driven and destroyed by the monomania of a jazz perfectionist. The film makes the hero (Kirk Douglas) largely the victim of a bad woman (Lauren Bacall). He is saved by the love of a good one (Doris Day) in time...
...schools, he is not forced too hard to learn things he is not ready to learn; nor is he often kept back a grade. That, in the view of Superintendent Oberholtzer, would shake his self-confidence. Through high school, he has a special counselor who tries to adapt his curriculum as much as possible to fit his wants, abilities and needs. Explains Oberholtzer: "You can't give the same educational fare to all children, any more than you can give all Americans the same breakfast food every morning." Only by bending the curriculum to each pupil's needs...
...What I find alarming in the present state of affairs is the failure of the British economic machine to, adapt itself to the new circumstances of the postwar world . . . The salient fact is that those efforts [we have made] have not been enough . . . Our system is stiff and rigid and unadaptable. We all know what happened to the brontosaurus because he could not adapt himself to new circumstances, and the fear that I have about the British economy is that it is getting a little into the state of the brontosaurus...
Said Rudi Bing: "After all, since the Metropolitan is the greatest opera house in the world, it must have been run properly . . . But it must adapt its policy to changing times...