Word: adjusted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Adjust the Buttons. One of Cerf's big assets is a group
...Faulkner's editor, now handles John O'Hara and James Michener. Jason Epstein, 38, is in charge of W. H. Auden and Norman O. Brown. Epstein surveys his duties with cynical modesty. "You're just a valet," he says. "The suit comes in and you adjust the buttons. Any role you play is accidental. You were at the right place at the right time." But most authors consider the editorial function a little more important than that. In a left-handed compliment, Critic Leslie Fiedler once described the typical book editor as "an odd blend of schoolmarm...
...adjust the scales and compensate those students in schools of low academic quality, the Selective Service authorities asked colleges last year to compute and forward students' class ranks. This guarantees the better students in each school a deferment. Ranking has now become an integral part of the 2-S deferment -- an attempt to render more equitable an inherently discriminatory system...
...function as members of the opposite sex, not only to appear as such." Psychiatric treatment, including long-continued analysis, has proved virtually worthless to patients who do not want to be changed emotionally, leading Dr. Benjamin to conclude: "Since the mind of the transsexual cannot be adjusted to the body, it is logical and justifiable to attempt the opposite, to adjust the body to the mind...
...belatedly become bothered by high dropout rates. About one-third of Caltech's and one-fifth of M.I.T.'s frosh do not stay for four years, which implies that if such smart kids do not make it, something must be wrong with the teaching. To help freshmen adjust to the competition, Caltech now issues only "pass" or "fail" grades the first year. M.I.T., tired of the student refrain that "Tech is hell," has similarly loosened its freshman and sophomore course load, broken up its long-standard curriculum. "In the past, if a fellow was too short we stretched...