Word: academia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...combative anti-intellectualism he developed as a Texas-bred Bush attending Ivy League schools back East. Ever since George W. left Houston to follow in his father's footsteps at Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass., he has viewed with deep suspicion and disdain the world of elite Northeastern academia and the people who populate it. Bush was one of the most popular students in his class at Yale. He mixed easily with the rich and the well bred, but, according to classmates, he developed an intense dislike for the class of Yalie he deemed "intellectual snobs." To Bush, the epitome...
...Ridiculous as it sounds today, Harvard University originally championed the SAT (the first major standardized test) as a means to achieving a classless society. However, the system implemented has achieved other, unintended purposes. Instead of the mechanism leading society towards utopia, testing has become an absurd beast ravaging American academia...
Some balance the pulls of academia and the political arena by alternating time in one realm and the other...
Still, Fried says that it is important for those in academia to take an active interest in the political realm...
...Most advisers who come from academia are unfamiliar with and unsympathetic to the harsh constraints of the political system," Edley says...