Word: adaptive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Yorker as a cartoon sorter; even before the huge success seven years later of his first novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms, he was famous in Manhattan literary circles for his lyrical, funny and gothic short stories, nearly all on the theme of loneliness. He went on to adapt his stories for the stage, produce screenplays and write nonfiction works. Of In Cold Blood, his horrific 1965 account of the murder of a Kansas family by two drifters, he boasted that he had created a new genre, the nonfiction novel. As much a member of the glitterati as the literati, Capote...
...There's a tremendous amount of excitement. It's a very exciting time for the development of the program." Dean for Students and Alumni Dr. Daniel D. Federman said yesterday. He is also chairman of the Faculty Development committee, which is responsible for helping teachers adapt their methods for the new program...
Elliot Richardson, who was Nixon's Attorney General when he was forced out in the Saturday Night Massacre of 1973, sees his ex-boss as a President who succeeded in making the U.S. "adapt to the realities of change" but was "brought down by fatal flaws in his character." Says Richardson, who is now campaigning for a Senate seat in Massachusetts: "We all have the defects of our qualities. Nixon resented those more fortunate than he. He was insecure. But that was what propelled him to the presidency...
...Angeles Games. And all without major investment in new buildings. "Even the simplest new structures would have cost at least $500 million," says Ed Keen, the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee's construction boss. "We couldn't afford such white elephants. So we decided to adapt 26 old athletic facilities-some left over from the 1932 Olympiad-and decorate them to give them a unified look...
...fairly generally acknowledged that it is easier to implement a policy of pre-screening with it small portfolio," Blumenthal added. "[Harvard] is a far different bird, it would be more difficult for a portfolio like Harvard's to adapt...