Word: adapts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...began to bother me that I was willing to let the people around me see me not as I saw myself, but only as reflections of themselves. Perhaps that's all that's left of the old, supposedly gracious and civilized South--an ability to sense people and adapt to them--but I wanted a stronger identification than that...
Adjusting to Harvard is no easy task for any freshman. Just remember that the process of adaptation involves three fundamental steps: Step 1--learn to ignore; Step 2--adapt without conforming; Step 3--don't deny your origins. And keep in mind that getting used to Harvard takes a long time. For some, it never happens...
...tensions immanent in socio-economic trends must be worked out within and through political elements in "human nature." ...The plasticity of culture must adapt itself in some manner or other to the needs that spring from man's conditioning; and this does not permit us to assume that the political structure of society can accommodate itself to whatever image we have of what man should...
...doing is trying to correct the negatives. Second, there must be a new look, because all around us in the world all relations, all balances are changing hour by hour, not day by day. So there must be a new look, and I am trying to adapt us to this new look, to the new balances, to the new strategies. Some are shouting that I am abolishing Nasserism. I don't pay heed to them...
Lester has taken the tone of The Three Musketeers from Scenarist Fraser, whose Flashman novels Lester once tried to adapt. The Fraser books are full of the kind of self-deflating braggadocio, the same sort of elaborate but inglorious combats one finds here. Heroics are mocked, survival is championed. The musketeers are made into creatures whose absurdities of conduct, florid codes of honor and hollow protestations of heroism make them all the more recognizable and human. It is their own faint absurdity that makes them true...