Word: adapts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just perfectly direct principles. It's so important that there are reasons for doing things. It is a tradition with rules-perfectly simple ones. If you know them, then you can do any kind of cooking." To teach rules and take the mystery out of French cooking, and adapt it to the U.S. kitchen and supermarket, is Julia's aim and the key to her success...
...hairdresser. Then, instead, you send your wig and stay home to receive your lover. You retrieve the wig later and appear properly coiffed for your husband. Neat." As for Novelist Sagan, who was in New York last week promoting her new book, the failure of Americans to adapt to the new timetable was a bit tristessing. Gazing wistfully at the towers of Manhattan as the clocks struck 2, she said: "It doesn't seem to have caught on here...
...more concerned to develop in the right direction. Already the Czechs have established Western-style business-administration schools to teach the new economic skills to managers who in the past were totally unaware of even the world market prices of goods they were producing. "If they don't adapt," says Sik ominously, "they will be replaced...
...these, said Dr. Schroeder, are metals to which newly exposed man has little or no ability to adapt...
...central character is Carter Jones, splendidly sung by Negro Baritone McHenry Boatwright. Schuller sees Jones as "the type of Negro whose personal and racial characteristics have become undefined because of attempts over the years to adapt himself to the dominating social order. He simply wants to lead a decent life in an indecent society. " Onstage, that society is represented by a gang of white toughs, in an unnamed U.S. city, who accuse Jones of an undisclosed misdeed, subject him to a "trial" in a cotton warehouse and beat him mercilessly. He seeks help from the Legal Aid Society, friends...