Word: copely
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Gillette, the town ballooned from a population of 3,580 people in 1960 to 12,125 in 1975. House trailers crowded in among the billboards and ramshackle storefronts, water supplies dwindled, the schools bulged with students. Crime, alcoholism and violence were commonplace. The town officials were simply unprepared to cope with the ugly side of the boom...
Early on swimmers learn to cope with the disbelief of friends who cannot comprehend rising at 4:45 a.m. for workouts; friends who can't understand why a workouts; friends who can't understand why a workout might come before a vacation; and friends who continually ask, "Don't you ever get tired of swimming?" or "Are you going to the Olympics...
...TIME WHEN race relations on campus and around the country appear to be growing more strained, some in the production staff of Vinette Carroll's Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope worried that the show might inflame racial tensions. The gamble, however, pays off successfully, and the all-Black cast with their rhythm and bluesy score cut across racial boundaries by presenting life's frustrations, pains, rewards and hopes in a tender and human way. The production's air of naive amateurism, though unintentional, ends up bringing the actors' feelings closer to the audience, creating an atmosphere...
...SECOND ACT, Cope sets its sights higher and addresses the more spiritual and long-range questions of finding one's place in the world, falling in love, and dealing with society's inherent injustices. On this higher, more soul-searching level, Cope finally takes off and evokes genuine emotion from the audience. Solo songs and introspective spotlights on selected characters leave the second act more vulnerable, yet in the end, the troupe commands infinitely more attention, respect, and most of all, tenderness than in the chaos of the first...
Robots sometimes seem remarkably stupid to the engineers trying to educate them. A robot can cope with complex mathematical formulas, of course, but when it sees something through its TV camera, it has a hard time translating the two-dimensional image into three-dimensional reality. A robot instructed to look for a triangular object will waste valuable time fingering cubes and cylinders before