Word: adapts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nineteenth century found Bach's music difficult to perform in the Romantic style-their alternating piano-forte, their rubato, their sharp dynamic contrasts. If Bach's was difficult to adapt to their style, the nineteenth century decided, it was Bach's fault...
...Stock Exchange, speaks proudly of the Big Board's "preeminent position in the securities industry." Then he utters what his predecessors would surely have deemed blasphemy-the thought that this dominance is not part of the order of nature but could be lost if the exchange does not adapt itself to "a totally new set of conditions." Largely because it has so far been highly resistant to just such a basic change, the Big Board is in trouble today...
...muddle of oddments," where myriad small firms busily made saddles, harnesses, tools, buttons, guns, jewelry, papier-mâché trays. What happened? When other cities began producing their own textiles, proud Manchester withered. But, Jane Jacobs delightedly points out, poky Birmingham's underlying diversity allowed it to adapt creatively to changing technologies and markets...
Conroy subsists in a pale no-man's-land between faith and apostasy-between the 19th century to which he cannot return and the 20th century to which he cannot adapt. In a scene of lovely irony, he sits in a barber's chair fascinated by a U.S. western on TV, while, in the next room, a dying old man struggles to remember half-forgotten lines of Gaelic song...
...actors all feel the growing pains of the Atma, and are required to adapt themselves at a moment's notice to the severe limitations constantly being set upon them. And the required adaptations are many. The very choice of plays is limited by the small cast of ten players. (Krapp's Last Tape has one character, Albee's Zoo Story has only two characters, and so on with the entire repertoire...