Word: adaptation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last year's HTW, as well as the Harvard Dramatic Club, had to adapt its presentations to the curtainless and antiquated precincts of Sanders Theatre...
...appearance of man . . . with his generalized form, and his ability to adapt himself to changing environment, brought on the scene the 'lord of creation' who was flexible enough to survive a variety of changes . . . This generalization has been both the strength and the weakness of man . . . While . . . specialized species either perished ... or stagnated in static societies . . . man rose from precariousness to precariousness . . . The point I want to make is that biological specialization can eventually lead to ... destruction or to a treadmill of repetition...
...Adapt and translate the librettos into the language Joe speaks-English . . ." Billy complained that when the average European goes to the opera, he feels that he's going to the theater, "but when Joe Citizen in this country is shoehorned into a tuxedo, he feels that he's going to a concert. Joe isn't interested in the plot because he doesn't know what the plot is all about, and the stilted jabberwocky in the printed libretto only confuses him further...
...classes can claim to create any strong bonds among students. The result of both the academic and social structure in the College is largely the same. The stereotypes already present in an incoming Freshman class become hardened: the scholars become more scholarly; the playboys play more; those who adapt themselves easily join clubs, publications, and other sorts of groups, and those who do not adjust easily become increasingly isolated. "Individualism," it is called, and it is the outstanding characteristic of Harvard College...
There is at least a chance that rats will outlive the human race. Most species of animals die out because they have over-specialized and cannot adapt themselves to a new condition. Human beings, for example, have specialized in brains. If humans are destroyed because of their own super-smartness, rats may eventually take their place as the earth's dominant species. They are more adaptable than any other animal, and are somewhat like the primitive, generalized mammals that inherited the earth at the close of the age of reptiles...