Word: academia
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...holidays was more pronounced. When the classrooms had been stripped of their posters and the last of the lunchroom trays had been cleared, that was the true beginning of summer. Each year after I received my final report card, I’d close the door on academia and only two thoughts competed for attention in my young brain: the fact that I'd somehow aced Algebra, and the sneaking (yet perennially inaccurate) suspicion that this would be the year I finally filled out my tankini. Ahead of me lay nothing but two months of unstructured time in which...
...poem can be a delightful read or a painful exercise in frustration, as with much of the modern stuff. Today's poetry often seems to use obscurity for its own sake, to be so profound that the meaning, if there is one, is too erudite for those outside of academia. I confess that sometimes it just sounds to me like nonsense phrases pretending to mean something important. Since I write free verse, I know it is possible to create that delightful moment of understanding without being obscure. Annabelle Reeve, Aberdeen, North Carolina...
...Poetry is not in decline. it thrives outside academia, in popular song lyrics that millions of people, especially children, can recite by heart. One need only listen to the lyrics of today's hip-hop, rap, jazz and rock-music artists to hear poetry as it has been practiced since ancient times. Contemporary music lyrics can be vulgar, vivid, challenging, eloquent, passionate, inspiring and more-all the things that written poetry used to be. Many academics lament poetry's decline in readership. Who says poetry should be read? The presentation of poetry in written form has declined...
...That maverick streak comes naturally to the driven Yamanaka. Many Japanese scientists, even the best ones, can seem detached and dreamy. Though he has only worked in academia, Yamanaka by contrast has the no-nonsense air of the hybrid researcher/entrepreneur, a type that plays a big role in American stem-cell science. "He used to be an orthopedic surgeon, so he has a good sense in connecting his research to a practical application," says Yoshiki Sasai, a stem-cell scientist at the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe. "He's like a venture [capitalist]. He couldn...
...move echoed the boldness of Bok’s bullish predecessor, who never avoided the spotlight and knew how to make Harvard’s actions resound throughout academia...