Subsequent issues omit the editorial board and credit Bataille alone as general secretary, which indicates a more managerial or administrative position, leaving the absorbing question of editorial control unresolved.
And it is an occasion to chew the fat about the future: not just that of the Republic, with reform of Social Security and the like, but also about an altogether more absorbing question, the future of the Republicans.
That absorbing question inspired a new study at the University of South Carolina during which scientists assembled mice and assigned half to run for an hour a day on little treadmills, while the rest lounged in their cages without exercising.
The McCain team was certainly game, its two representatives doing their best to endure a no-doubt squirm-inducing ritual as they absorbed question after question about everything that they had done wrong.
They take his contention as their starting-point for a passionate defence of knowledge as more than facts and information, to be stored or downloaded, but not absorbed, questioned or created.
-- that makes his tale endlessly absorbing, a question this film bypasses too glibly.
As always, such discoveries raise absorbing new questions about the possibility that simple lifeforms could have existed during these ancient times.
Young children are not always equipped, as most adults are, with the critical tools to analyse and probe information – what is presented as fact is often absorbed without question.
By a kind of literary osmosis that is possible only when you're young, I absorbed without question Renault's idealization of severe, undemonstrative men; I wasn't yet able to recognize, in the author's clichés of gay effeminacy, certain unexamined prejudices of her own.
In his easy acceptance of what he saw as his fate — just as my father had accepted his childhood — I suddenly saw how I would never truly be able to communicate with him, this kind, gentle man whose blood I had inherited, whose culture I had absorbed without question.
In a rare, quiet moment, I would be sitting in her office and, closing my steno pad, I would say, "I want to ask you a question about 'unnatural world, whorled, begotten, petaled.' Why did you choose those adjectives: 'whorled, begotten, petaled'?" and Z. would lean forward, pause for a moment to absorb the question, and answer in a voice that told me how much my interest mattered to her.
