Word: absorber
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...made them feel they were better than they had thought they wore: that perhaps, on earth, God's work might truly be their own. And he could absorb, in his imagination, the dreams and longings, the fears and ambitions of others, whether they lived in mud huts in Africa or in the palaces of kings," Johnson said...
...whole success of Fair Lady was so extreme and strange that it was hard for her to absorb it, and in fact she never did," says her husband. "You know, a hit like that becomes a fashion, and having Julie at your party became a catch. She never got used to that. She was dazed by it all. Her main memory of it seems to be how hard it all was." But not quite so hard as seeing someone else do the movie...
...attack our Vice-President-to-be, from nearly any political direction. Still, I doubt that any of his critics, from Miller to Mailer, will ever strike a really telling blow. Humphrey may disdain the President's art of dodging partisan thrusts, but he does know how to stand still, absorb them, and learn from them, growing sager and more maddeningly lovable all the while...
...really swinging types as "tigers." As the psychologists see it, the tiger is a symbol of virility; as the admen see it, it is a surefire gimmick: sales of U.S. Rubber's tiger-paw tires have almost doubled since it began its campaign, and tigers now absorb a third of the company's $6,000,000 tire-ad budget...
Foreigners have always loved Italy, Barzini points out. Tourists by the thousands, and recently by the millions, have gone there each year, the Germans and Scandinavians looking for sun, the Americans and Russians eager to absorb culture, the artists and fake artists searching for refuge, the rich seeking laxly enforced tax laws and the poor seeking "a place where indigence looks like modest affluence by contrast with the surrounding poverty." Men come to Italy to pursue the young women, who, Barzini concedes, "are now more disturbingly beautiful than they have ever been," with "harmonious behinds like double mandolins"; foreign women...