Word: adapts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Clearly, the U.S. will have to adapt to the polarization of Communist politics if, as Adam B. Ulam, professor of Government, has suggested, the Chinese eventually organize another Communist International, the breach will not be mended for a long time to come...
...likeness is as private as his still, and the photographer who strikes it without asking is likely to get struck back. That very independence is one of the major obstacles blocking the mountaineer's assimilation into the 20th century. In the world's most mobile, adaptable society, he does not want to move or adapt...
...future, there is still the troublesome problem of school integration. With the 1964 Civil Rights Act as his club, Keppel issued "guidelines" last spring ordering integration at the rate of four grades a year for the next three years; in the absence of such plans, schools could adapt "freedom of choice" plans, by which Negroes would be permitted to enter any school that could accommodate them. Any school system that failed to develop acceptable plans, he said, would lose its claim to federal funds. To ease the pain, Keppel sent his men into Dixie to talk to school administrators...
...hall is glorified $17.7 million pinball machine. Mood of pessimism pervades. Rumors circulate that visiting orchestras are going to boycott splendorous blue-and-gold hall in favor of mellow surroundings of Carnegie Hall. Soloists panic, talk of canceling performances. Hall management says it takes time for ear to adapt. Hall Acoustician Leo Beranek, who spent four years studying 54 of world's finest concert and opera houses in preparation, pleads: "I predicted in the beginning that it would take a year to get the hall into its ultimate condition." Lincoln Center President William Schuman says: "Help...
With respect to this rhythm, which was so alien to the girl's vital personal rhythms that during the first few days it seemed unendurable: she wanted to adapt herself to it, she made an effort, followed her friend's advice, Invented a personal relation of interiority valid for herself alone ... To do this, is it entirely obvious that she gave herself to the machine ... Ultimately, the total adaptation to semi-automatism is the destruction of the girl's organic rhythms, and the interiorization of a rhythm which is absolutely other...