Word: adaptive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Band opened its spring program on the lighter side last night by playing the New England Golden Gloves finals in Lowell, Mass. This year's schedule requires the band to adapt to such varied places as Symphony Hall, Fenway Park and the White House...
London's stories, first read by a generation that was to enter World War I, had a recurring theme: man could revert to barbarism or adapt to civilization. Much of the fascination of London's work and life lay in the fact that he could never decide, for himself or for his characters, which footprints of what gigantic hound to follow-the wolf of the wilderness or the Saint Bernard of civilization...
...Selye sees it, every influence that bears on man requires him to adapt himself to his circumstances, including both outward events and internal emotions. As a technical framework for the disorders resulting from excess stress (or from faulty adaptation to normal stress), he has constructed the general adaptation syndrome, or G.A.S. Under this theory, the immediate response of the human or any other animal to a challenging stimulus is the alarm reaction-the mobilization for fight or flight marked by drops in body temperature, blood pressure and blood sugar. This first or shock phase may last from a few minutes...
John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress is a great Protestant allegory. It is also an allegory of Everyman, and many men have tried to adapt it and make it their own. Antinomians tried to make it even more Calvinist than Bunyan himself. Tractarian scribes, trying to bring the Anglican Church closer to Roman Catholic practices, rewrote it to take out the Reformation sting. A Roman Catholic version appeared with the head of the Virgin Mary (the worship of whom was heresy to Baptist Bunyan) on the title page. Now Dr. Harding, a leader of the Jung school...
...Indians are in somewhat the same situation, though they have a year's head start on the Crimson. Coach Bob Blackman introduced his "V" system last year, and it took the Big Green half a season to adapt to it. The "V" is actually a split "T" formation except that the fullback plays up close to the line between the guard and the tackle and is used primarily for blocking purposes. In last week's 7-7 tie with Holy Cross, however, the Indians gave indication that they may have gained full control over the new system...