Word: academia
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...norm everywhere, from Sunday morning talk shows to the floor of the House. Limbaugh is dangerous is in affirmations of a silent conspiracy to undermine the well-being of America by liberal-elites. These "left-wing counterculturists" are supposedly well-educated professionals who have infiltrated the media, government and academia. Limbaugh has yet to explain the scope of their conspiracy, but in recent weeks he has held them responsible for the deficit, crime and the evils of public television...
...thought without explanation, to speak of groups in sweeping and erroneous generalizations, to condemn any solution that is grounded in something deeper than knee-jerk common sense. In response to these trends, Democrats and Republicans who place the pursuit of truth above their party labels must acknowledge that "liberal academia" is not involved in a secret plot to destroy America. "Elite universities" are not motivated by secret political agendas. Those holding liberal views are as concerned with the future of the country as are conservatives...
...challenge vested interests only after being granted tenure. I found it (remember I was young) difficult to imagine that the ritual slaughter of the elders would have any appeal whatsoever to the newly tenured, since they would in effect be attacking themselves--now custodians of the sacred grove [academia...
...Washington plays the naked power game, if Los Angeles spices power ploys with glitz, New York City energizes itself with a workout borrowed from academia: the intellectual war game, clarifying issues by talking them to death. The current fracas is the biggest since the obscenity debate over Robert Mapplethorpe's photography. It pits one of the country's most brilliant and respected critics against one of its most daring and respected choreographers. Arlene Croce is the New Yorker's dance reviewer; no American arts critic is more admired-or more feared. Bill T. Jones is a modern-dance choreographer; handsome...
...thesis is very different from the report.The work is very tailored to academia," she says."[On the other hand,] the report is watered downand is not a Nobel Prize winning piece. It'swritten in newspaper language...