Word: adaptive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...active bear. The research was carried out for the Arctic Health Research Center. Aim: to discover how man can better adapt to cold by studying how animals...
Womb & Wing. The purists were horrified, and Saarinen's work was always to be controversial. In his U.S. embassy in London he attempted to adapt a wholly modern building to the Georgian style...
...Honda bought a supply of small surplus motors that had been designed for the portable communications equipment used by the defeated Imperial army, began to adapt the engines to power ordinary bicycles. With Japanese transport facilities still knocked out by the war, the motorized bicycle scored such a hit that Honda soon found himself unable to keep up with demand...
...Kreisler says that "I don't think I have ever consciously considered grades as a goal." A Marshall scholar, headed for two years at Oxford's Balliol College, he wants to be a teacher-scholar. His main interest is man's "preservation of the ability to adapt to accelerating revolutions." As though for the nation's entire class of 1961, he sums up: "Our job now is to keep changing, keep responding, keep living...
Freud and his early followers were getting farther and farther removed from the real world, had to adapt or die. At recent rates, classical analysis cost about $5,000 a year. It was clear that selective use of psychoanalytic principles (or some other brand of "depth psychology"), combined with physical measures or drugs, were far more effective for many mental illnesses, including some neuroses...