Word: absorber
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This album just doesn't really make it. Now, two-record packages are a tricky business to put together and almost as tricky a business to listen to; they present too much material to absorb at one sitting. But I have listened to the whole thing a dozen times now, and with the exception of the four or five best cuts, it all sounds the same. The hard rock material in particular comes off sounding like failed imitations of the Stones' earlier work; three of the album's four sides open with guitar riffs that are suspiciously similar...
...acknowledged that student issues--primarily Gulf and the resulting takeover of Massachusetts Hall--had taken up an unexpected amount of time. "There's no question that the Mass Hall episode threw us behind schedule. That kind of situation does absorb your energies to the extent that you can't do the things you planned on as easily," he said...
...floor, your feet pointing to the sound source, and absorb the music. Listen with the soles of the feet." Those are the directions for doing the "Audicon Plantar," one of the basic exercises in a training program now being advertised and offered in a dozen cities by a new mystical movement: the New York-based Arica Institute in America, Inc. By following the mental and physical regime prescribed by Arica, trainees are told, they may well "regain the Essential Self," achieve "total serenity" and "unity with emptiness," and ascend to a beatific level of consciousness arcanely called "the Permanent...
...company is too big and complex for anyone else to manage effectively. Certainly the organization contains the potential for turning into an unwieldy bureaucracy. The system that Geneen has crafted so carefully might well need someone with his extremely rare blend of drive, decisiveness and astonishing capacity to absorb figures...
...Jewel Food Stores, the profit margin has slipped slightly since Phase II began. The huge A. & P. chain lost money last year. New consumer-protection laws have also boosted the super-marketeers' costs; they often have to put meat in relatively expensive plastic see-through trays and must absorb the administrative expenses of posting "unit prices" (prices per Ib.) of all goods...