Word: academicized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Imagine a place of quiet but intense academic research. A place where eager young scholars come to escape the harried constants of class and committee work expected of them at their universities and, instead, are given money and a comfortable office to pursue their dreams of publishing.
Founded in 1960 by Radcliffe's fifth president, Mary Ingraham Bunting, the institute began as a means to combat what she called a "climate of unexpectation" for academic women.
It may mean one less magazine column, one less $3,000 honorarium for giving a speech to a business group and even one less journal article. In short, it would mean a slight shift in priorities. But surely it would also mean a more meaningful academic experience for many undergraduates...
For the American political class--that loose aggregate of politicians, pollsters, consultants, campaign managers and media commentators--the questions about post-Monica fallout are anything but academic. The 2000 campaign trail is already moving through terrain pocked and cratered by the scandal. The early front runners are trying to define...
When George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley was asked by an MSNBC anchorman last week to identify the winners and losers of the past year, there was one name conspicuously absent from Turley's list: Jonathan Turley. For of all the pundits who have achieved talk-show celebrity since...