Word: academia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...four years had granted a stay of execution from the inevitable suicidal confrontation with non-academia. Stevens's taste for indulgence was now a habit. He was incapable of coping with the demands of an unrelenting world. His ideology had become one of comfort; and he settled all questions in reference to it. It was easier than thinking...
...found that Widener Library and Harvard's "smorgasbord of courses" did not hold solutions for either the world's problems or his own increasingly-agonizing spiritual concerns. "Problems of the soul and spiritual identity--one's place, one's function--these questions were not going to be resolved by academia," he reasoned. "I reached a new view of what the church...
...student added, "A lot of people think we're not working hard enough now. They really want more people to follow their footsteps into basic science academia...
...past, many graduate students stayed on for several years, preferring the benefits of steady if poorly paid work to the uncertain future of job-hunting in the stultifying academia out of which they had only recently and partially emerged. And the University, for its part, enjoyed the fruits of these inner hesitations and deliberations, namely the heart of its stable, diligent and economical teaching staff...
Also the proponents of the JFK memorial speak of carrying out his dream to bring politics and academia closer together. What could further this end more than locating the school of politics in Park Square, adjacent to both the State House and Boston City Hall? Joseph Schirmer Ward...