Word: adapts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Through art," believes rangy athletic Bartlett Hayes, Jr., 62, "the student learns to adapt and meet the unexpected. The quarterback learns this on the football field; the student can learn it in the gallery." As an art teacher at Phillips Academy, Andover, since 1933, and head of the prep school's Addison Gallery of American Art since 1940, Bart Hayes has taught two generations of Andover boys how to adapt, and in the process set nationwide precedents in art instruction and appreciation. Says Metropolitan Museum Director Thomas P. F. Hoving, who attended Andover's archrival Exeter: "Bart Hayes...
...court to reach the people. Since the court realized that the "laws of the king were inferior to the customs of the villages," the wisest thing for it to do in order not to have its "mandate from Heaven" revoked was to use these scholars who could usually effectively adapt the requirements of the court to the traditions of the villages...
...people just can't adapt, it's so entirely different. I've seen people who get an order and then just sit down and cry. They have what's called a Mental Hygiene Clinic. They have psychiatrists there who decide whether or not you're bad enough to get out of the army. Actually, first they try to decide where they can put you to get maximum use out of you and then when they find this
...episode. In The Balcony Strick was groping energetically, if not successfully, for new film conventions to express Genet's revolutionary theatrical form. In Ulysses he has recreated Joyce's form superbly, has proved himself a great translator. The mind delights in considering the unconventional literary masterpieces he might next adapt. My own first candidate is Tristram Shandy, the eighteenth-century grandfather of Ulysses...
...naturalistic plane, the story is relatively easy to adapt. It merely describes in numbingly minute detail a few ordinary things that happen on June 16, 1904, in the lives of three people in Dublin: a young poet-teacher named Stephen Dedalus (Maurice Roeves), a middle-aged Jewish ad salesman named Leopold Bloom (Milo O'Shea) and Bloom's erogenous wife Molly (Barbara Jefford). Joyce overlaid his simple story with symbolic parallels, some mythological and some psychological, that are more difficult to photograph. Stephen, for example, is Telemachus, Bloom is Ulysses, Molly is Penelope, and the events...