Word: latching
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Amazingly, despite Lilly's copious writings on the subject (notably The Deep Self), it took California's meditation industry almost two decades to latch onto his discovery. The pioneers of Pop immersion were Glenn and Lee Perry, a Los Angeles couple who started mass-producing tanks for home dunking five years ago and have sold tanks at prices ranging from $1,200 to $2,500. Last June they opened the Samadhi (Sanskrit for state of deep contemplation) Tank Center in Beverly Hills, where they have attracted 3,500 customers. Meanwhile, two-year-old Denver-based Float To Relax...
Many undergraduates will latch onto some kind of research work for a professor or in a lab. A handful will fill research assistant positions overseas. Some never get enough research. The search becomes research. Research, research, indoors, libraries, file cards, papers, research. All the best...
...personalities are as memorable as Coll's. Dean Yarborough, the principal of the school and a black activist of the Martin Luther King years, teaches trumpet lessons in the afternoon; Father Jim, the cigar smoking priest, spends time fixing cement foundations; and the children all seemingly eager to latch on to a tutor...
...would-be Wizard of Oz to follow down the yellow brick road to the White House, New Hampshire fills a psychological void. New Hampshire takes the vague preconceptions and sets them in bold type; where conflicting polls lose meaning, the neat, unchanging rows of figures give everyone something to latch on to as gospel. "The people have spoken, the fools...
...course, you know better. You know you can avoid confronting either a professor or a course. You know that Harvard teaches most people not liberal arts but how to get what you want, or go under. The promise of humanism remains unfulfilled for all but a lucky few, who latch onto the people here who have not lost sight of this University's purpose...