Word: adaptive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Reincarnation on Central Park West? It sounds like material left over from an old Nichols and May routine. An implacably amorous computer? It sounds as if the Disney organization decided to adapt an idea Stanley Kubrick had discarded as unworthy of him. Yet allegedly responsible adults, accountable to the stockholders of major motion picture concerns, are asking us to consider the former a realistic possibility, the latter a cautionary tale...
...daily work with prisoners and their families has shown us the tragic and irreversible effect the present prisons system has had on the prisoners' personal lives and on their abilities to adapt constructively to our larger society. In the light of the chronic misery that his system propagates, Commissioner Hall's argument for immediate prisons construction is an abominable shame. Recently disclosed Mass. Bar Statistics reveal that Hall's much-publicized "severe overcrowding" at MCI is due largely to his own system of prisoner classification. The prisoners he has crowded together there are new, young inmates, for whom the proposed...
...year director of defense research, Malcolm Currie got six-figure job offers from three aerospace companies. He decided to go to Culver City, Calif., as a $180,000-a-year vice president in charge of Hughes Aircraft's guided-missiles projects. They include a $150 million contract to adapt the French-West German Roland antiaircraft missile for use by U.S. forces, that was awarded while Currie was in the Pentagon...
...Columbia, the food service has been forced to adapt to a large percentage of commuters. In fact, so few students live in university housing, or remain on campus during weekends, that no meals are serviced in university facilities on Saturday or Sunday. Options run only from Monday to Friday, and all contracts are voluntary. The options do not differ according to the number of meals offered per week; rather, they constitute a "cash equivalency plan." Kay Knipers, General Manager of Food Services, says students receive their nourishment in exchange for tickets, which are good not only in the dining hall...
...broaches some fairly sober issues. A thoughtful chapter on how the deaf can build a rewarding religious life outlines a sign-language worship service. Another section, on blindness, includes a Hebrew alphabet in braille. Other entries grapple with the ethical problems of premarital sex, contraception and abortion, trying to adapt the stern proscriptions of the Torah to more modern attitudes. Jewish divorce laws, for example, are weighted heavily in favor of the husband, making it difficult for the wife to start proceedings. The Catalog suggests ways to balance the inequality. "The important thing isn't whether...