Word: adjustment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doing with slugs. I try to explain, but most of them aren't listening. They're just being polite." The National Science Foundation feels differently, has given Dr. Segal a $21,000 grant in the hope that his study of the slugs' ability to adjust to temperature may provide clues in helping humans adapt to tough environments-such as high altitudes or outer space...
...Stark, Dean is superb in his portrayal of a teenager with more energy than direction, forced by his family to move from town to town to escape his past. He makes every attempt to adjust to his new environment, but there is an insurmountable obstacle in the form of the local ruling class, a group of unsavory types who just can't wait to become mature, full-grown gangsters and begin practicing the arts early...
...Scheme of things, frankly, I don't know. The guy at the Spa who sold me my issue of Gadfly said that he had sold more copies of it than he had of Playboy. But I'm not worried. Anyway, I can always sublimate my desires and adjust...
...comfortable and working." Instruments are lighter, tougher and less demanding, are sensitive to many things that human senses ignore. They already have memories (tape recorders), and they can carry computers that will permit them to make judgments. An instrument-manned Venus probe should be able to make observations and adjust its course by firing small rockets when it nears its goal. Perhaps it will round Venus and then put itself into a back-to-earth trajectory...
...general, these procedures worked very well. Mr. Beveridge was wisely discreet in composing "Sing to Me Through Open Windows": his few touches set off the material of the drama without getting in its way. Unfortunately, the purely musical effects were partially obscured because no one saw fit to adjust the loudspeaker volume above the mezzo-piano level...