Word: academia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seven fellows at the Kennedy School's Institute of Politics (IOP), Pippert has returned from a two-year assignment in Israel to join a mixed group of real world political activists in venturing for a semester into the rarefied world of academia...
...time he graduates from high school, Junior will be able to face the challenges of higher academia with Transcendental Signifier firmly in hand. He has learned enough French to translate Tel Quel (So What) and enough German to converse knowingly about Aufheben. His bluebooks instruct him to write only in the margins. As he looks ahead to college, the choice of the major is the next question: will it be Historicismn or Metaphysics? Panaestheticism, Diachronics or Sociolects? In his first romance, he can hope for jouissance...
...Jewett downplays his intellectual prowess."I consider myself to be interested in academicissues and goals," Jewett says. "Whether I do thatas well as a person with a Ph.D, I don't know."Thirty years have passed since Jewett graduatedmagna cum laude, but he has never given uphis interest in academia. In fact the governmentmajor, a member of Phi Beta Kappa, has taken atleast one course every semester he has been atHarvard...
Scholars and University administrators now say that this emphasis on practical research may pose as grave a threat to academia as the increasing reliance of institutions of higher learning on the Department of Defense...
...controversial Harvard sociologist may continue her odyssey through academia as the Princeton politics department voted last week to extend an offer to her, scholars at both schools said yesterday...