Word: soaks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first striking aspect of O'Nan's novel is his language. I read the first paragraph four times, allowing ample time for the luscious, vivid imagery to soak through my bones. But the intensity of the novel is apparent from the beginning: the heat and weight of the lazy summer mood push the edges and demand release. From the beginning, the reader feels the hidden furnace of madness churning and knows instinctively that, if all is so plodding and weary to start, something dramatic must be brewing...
...what is so refreshing about these new arrivals (and about having been one) is that they have the right to be bewildered, and they know it. So the first year is somewhat of a roller-coaster ride, in which everything you see and do is new; you try to soak up your surroundings and gain some much-needed foundation--through friends, extracurriculars and, if you're lucky, a suitable concentration--and Harvard slowly starts to feel familiar...
...realized their vision of powered human flight in 1903, they made the world a forever smaller place. I've been to Kitty Hawk, N.C., and seen where the brothers imagined the future, and then literally flew across its high frontier. It was an inspiration to be there, and to soak up the amazing perseverance and creativity of these two pioneers...
...like Paul Wellstone of Minnesota as well as unpredictable bulls like Robert Byrd of West Virginia and Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York, old-school cajoling just isn't terribly effective. So Daschle holds hands instead of twisting arms, and he brings the caucus together frequently so members can soak up one another's ideas. The former Air Force intelligence officer sits quietly during most deliberations. "He absorbs the sense of what the room wants," says an aide, "and counts on the people close to him to back him up on what course he decides to take...
...plant. But because the seed company needs to generate enough product to sell in the first place, the scientists included one more DNA sequence--one that repressed all the sterilizing genes they had just inserted. Once they had grown all the seeds they needed, they would soak them in an antibiotic bath that neutralized the genetic repressor--rendering them infertile. "This is the most intricate application of genetic engineering to date," says Margaret Mellon, a senior scientist at the Union for Concerned Scientists...