Word: absorbate
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...Signet had become just another venue for socializing. “The assumption that a group of interesting people will spontaneously produce brilliant conversation when brought together does not often hold true after a morning of classes when most members prefer to relax rather than to emanate or to absorb culture,” the Crimson story said...
...stop funding rape and mass murder in Darfur. And even that noble and successful movement had its detractors: a group of largely wealthy undergrads who had pledged their own pocket money (raised no doubt, from their after-school jobs, right?) to Fair Harvard, and couldn’t absorb the idea that there was a legitimate objection to their peers duly shelling out cash...
...economy. But when that engine of growth sputtered and slowed this year, many of the trading partners it was pulling along practically lurched off the track. The jolt was particularly rough on the export-driven economies of the Pacific Basin. In Taiwan, which depends on the American market to absorb nearly half its exports, growth in the production of goods and services, adjusted for inflation, has fallen from 10.9% in 1984 to a projected 4.2% this year. Over the same period, Singapore's rate of expansion has dropped from 8.2% to an estimated .5%. All around East Asia, the world...
...Tengo, who has remained for the past decade on the radar of most underground rock purveyors, if not in their CD changers. Though I’ve listened to a handful of the band’s more recognizable albums, I’ve made little effort to absorb the music; thankfully, their recently Matador-released retrospective, “Prisoners of Love: A Smattering of Scintillating Senescent Songs 1985-2003,” has given me the chance. My reaction borders on rapture...
...lessons are not all explicitly political. One crucial notion that Harvard students and our president might absorb from time abroad starts in a place called the campus pub—found in most universities outside the Puritan New England belt. It’s not the drinking symbolized by the pub that matters (though a pre-lecture Guinness is delightful). It’s about having one place, one central place, for every single student, whether they’re fomenting revolution or playing a trivia game. My brother met a lass or 10 at his student union, a friend...