Word: towered
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...identity slip into their acts. And perhaps it is the Spoken Word Society’s act that will most explicitly confront and expose the fact that Cultural Rhythms is a production that showcases personal identity. In their performance, they speak out against American consumer culture and the ivory-tower atmosphere of academia that they call “being trapped inside the Harvard walls...
...stove to clean it or accidentally teaching the parrot to swear in Japanese. The pleasures of the "Schoolboys" arc, and the entire book, come as much from its richly detailed minutiae as its historicity. In one sequence Charlie and Fred take a walk past the "Call" building (now Central Tower), through Union Square with its bums lounging around, and into Chinatown, where they enjoy a bowl of noodles and eye the prostitutes behind the bordello windows. So what's changed? Not much. The connection across a 100-year divide is thrilling...
Early in Ex Machina: The First Hundred Days, the reader is hit with a surprisingly eerie re-imagining of the post-9/11 World Trade Center: the first tower is gone, replaced with the memorial beacon of light, but the second is still standing...
...separate development Thursday, the National Panel of Presidents and Chancellors, comprising top administrators at 10 universities, offered a set of detailed recommendations aimed at making life inside the ivory tower more accommodating of professors with families...
...classes like Social Analysis 78 that take full advantage of the potential of large, debate-style lectures are, contrary to popular opinion, very positive experiences. We hope that other star professors follow the lead of Summers, Sandel and Friedman and step out of the highest rooms of the ivory tower and into the intellectual forum of Sanders...