Word: academia
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...roommates and I have a favorite poster that hangs in the position of honor, right next to the bathroom. Created by Accuracy in Academia (that well-known scholarly body), it pictures a young Ronald Reagan in a Western film, with a noose around his neck. The caption reads, "Stop the Liberal/Media Lynch Mob! Tell the Truth About the Reagan Legacy...
Meanwhile, our friends at other colleges have the luxury of actually enjoying their break from academia...
...Academia is always set a few years behind," says Zerner. "Things change, but take a while to reach the curriculum...The urgency came from the fact that the old system was crumbling...
...Nicholson, adapting his own play, admits that given Lewis' reticence, he has had to imagine much of what went on in the relationship with Gresham. And reticent is the word for Richard Attenborough's film version. But that's a virtue, not a defect, when your setting is English academia (no one has more persuasively captured its manners) and your subject is mortality. There is something very moving in the understated way that these people confront it, something very sweetly believable in their courtship and in the brief bliss they shared. Hopkins gets to do what he could...
...June, 1948, amid swirling pre-McCarthyite controversy over Communism in academia, Conant signed a document by the Educational Policies Commission of the National Education Association...