Word: adaptiveness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Oscar de la Renta showed his new collection at the Hotel Okura last week, Calvin Klein's Japanese-made line was selling like sushi at Isetan department store, Tokyo's Bloomingdale's. Kashiyama, one of Japan's biggest garment manufacturers, uses a computer system to adapt John Meyer designs to the Japanese figure. Other companies have signed about a hundred contracts with American firms. American-style clothes rang up some $300 million in sales to the Japanese last year...
Versatility and ease are the keynotes of contemporary American fashion. Matching and mixing her clothes, today's woman can adapt a basic wardrobe to suit up for any occasion. TIME asked the editors of Vogue to pick a sample multipurpose wardrobe whose eleven easy, though not exactly inexpensive, pieces can be worn from spring to early fall. Cost...
...going to live in a time of scarce resources," Udall said. "The story of the '70s and '80s is going to be how we adapt to these changes...
...master class is unquestionably the most pressured forum for a student and teacher working together. A student must perform for teacher and audience and is expected to adapt a master's suggestions to his playing with little time to digest the advice, let alone work on it. A cello teacher, on the other hand, must gear his advice to the student so that the audience of cellists and non-cellists, musicians and non-musicians can profit from the class...
...quick, forceful, smart and knows where he is going and how to get there. He has the quality you find in brain surgeons. He concentrates completely on technique and doesn't get tied up in emotionalism." Adds Wall Street Lawyer Joseph McLaughlin: "He has a fantastic ability to adapt to his audience, whether it's a jury, a witness or the press...