Word: adjustment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Charity has long been a broad, well-traveled bridge over which the Outs have made their way toward the Ins. For one thing, a Good Cause helps adjust the American conscience to the sin of pleasure; Boston's Old Guard ladies still meet to gossip in "Sewing Circles," though the original pretense, sewing for the poor, has long since been abandoned. There are more modern advantages in having an eleemosynary excuse for an enchanted evening: 1) costs are tax-exempt contributions, and 2) the socially ambitious will write big checks and work furiously for the chance to rub elbows...
...endorsements of slacks, walking shorts, sports jackets, windbreakers, shoes, cigarettes and skin bracer. Arnold Palmer, an old hand at such matters, has often complained that his extracurricular business activities leave him too little energy for playing championship-caliber golf, and youthful Jack Nicklaus is going to have to adjust to being a celebrity too. If he can, with at least a dozen good playing years ahead of him, there seems no limit to the heights he may reach. He has certainly set his goal high enough. "I want," says Jack Nicklaus, "to be the best golfer the world has ever...
...kind of versatility that would allow him to play under any conditions, on any kind of course. He worked off the 25 excess pounds that had his fellow pros calling him "Ohio Fats" (in college, his nicknames were "Blob-O" and "Whaleman." He also had to learn to adjust to the nomadic life of a pro: until last week, when he decided to take a few days off and fish for trout, Jack had been home for only 17 days since January. When he wearily pulled up outside his modest, green-shuttered Cape Cod in suburban Upper Arlington, Ohio...
Hegger thinks that former Trappists, who observe almost total silence, find it hardest to adjust to their new status as laymen. But all, as outlaws from their church, face a difficult future. They know-little else but how to preach or say Mass, must learn to live with the emotional hostility many Christians feel toward someone who has forsaken a sacred calling. "They need help.'' Hegger says. "They are so much alone...
...Such a fund would eliminate both the paternalism and the inability to adjust to individual cases often associated with centralized, bureaucratic scholarship programs," one member insisted...