Word: adaptive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...actor, Newman pulls his punch lines. A half hippie, half religious revival meeting, for example, should have had the kick of LSD. Instead it dissipates and meanders between love and Haight-Ashbury. Moreover, Scenarist Stewart Stern often gets too close to the novel, adopting where he should adapt. Rachel is shackled with prosy monologues that should have been given visual form...
...Reddin is not the only chief cop in the U.S. trying to adapt the police establishment to the demands of the '60s. Among the others...
...Reform Jews represents a change in their tradition. Born in Germany during the Enlightenment, Reform Judaism rejected many restrictions imposed by Halakah, the rigid code of Jewish religious law. Whereas Orthodoxy maintained that Halakah is divinely inspired and cannot be altered, Reform contended that Jews have the right to adapt their religious laws to changing conditions...
Committees have a bad reputation in most circles, but they appear to be one of Harvard's strengths. They allow the University to adapt fairly quickly when confronted with new challenges that established machinery has never coped with before...
...trolley-cars, in diamonds, bonds, or beer, Banking, or railroads, well-established here By the mid-Eighties, in an atmosphere Of opulence, unquestionably graced With what their times and peers would call good taste, Arbiters of suburban etiquette, Leaders of the town-and-country set. They learned to adapt themselves to wearing spats, Frock-coats, striped morning-trousers, bowler hats, They learned to give high teas, to ride to hounds, To keep within the proper meets and bounds, Were public-spirited, would patronize, Most lavishly, the decent charities; Noblesse oblige. Somewhere along the line The name was changed. What...