Word: adaption
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...superintendent at Annapolis, Admiral James F. Calvert, believes that Zumwalt is "the best thing that's happened to the Navy in a long time," but he does not want his academy to adapt too completely to the world outside its walls. Calvert praises "team spirit, the battle cry, camaraderie, heroism, the desperate fight against impossible odds," and deplores the fact that higher education in the U.S. tends to reject "authority, tradition, moral values?anything that smacks of absolutes. Annapolis cannot go along with that." And if a midshipman does not believe "in the essential goodness of the country...
...American Indian program concentrates instead on educational theory and techniques in general with the hope that its graduates will adapt what they learn to the specific needs of their Native American communities...
...courts had wooden wall that gave a big bounce to the ball. Harvard, more accustomed to a lob game and soft touch, had to adapt to the livelier back and front walls...
...protection of basic civil liberties, he feels the University has no political obligations-the academic must predominate, so while the University needs to find ways to become involved in world affairs this must be done by means of an orderly discipline of instruction. Epps sees Harvard moving to adapt itself to modern problems by changing the emphasis in existing academic structures and perhaps adding new institutions, but insists that this be done wholly academically, with a disciplinary approach. Explaining this attitude, Epps recalls that Harvard responded to the demands of post-World War II society by developing new institutions such...
EVERYBODY'S got problems. Leonard Bernstein has problems, Samuel P. Huntngton has problems. A director seeking to adapt the Canterbury Tales for the stage has his share of headaches, too. But Laurence Bergreen, director of the Loeb Experimental Theatre production of Canterbury Tales has managed to deal with his problems in a way others might envy...