Word: towered
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...that in a meeting last fall, Summers criticized the quality of his work and chastised him for not spending enough time on campus. West has said he felt he was being attacked for what he perceived as the very noble endeavor of making his scholarship accessible outside the ivory tower. He saw himself as a scholar who was not afraid to take a stand on issues of public significance...
...Jacoby coined it in The Last Intellectuals: American Culture in the Age of Academe to describe the type of scholar whose disappearance his book lamented. He argued that colleges and universities had coopted all of society’s great minds and shut them up in the proverbial ivory tower, where their ideas and theories were of no use to the general public...
...says Turow, wiping sweat from his forehead after a golf game near his home on Chicago's North Shore. Golf is the only time Turow doesn't work. He writes his novels on the train to his office, works all day on the 77th floor of the Sears Tower for clients at $450 an hour, then takes the train home for more writing before...
...victims fit some sort of pattern. Serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin, convicted of nine murders from 1977 to 1980, has said he was trying to start a race war by shooting African Americans and interracial couples. At the other end of the gory spectrum, notorious shooters like Texas tower sniper Charles Whitman initiate one uninterrupted orgy of violence--as opposed to the methodical drumbeat of the current hit-and-run shootings. Some killers, most famously David (Son of Sam) Berkowitz, who fatally shot six strangers in New York City, make a point of communicating with the world by sending letters...
...also fascinating that Freinberg suddenly cares so much about our discourse. I’ve never seen him at our events. Freinberg forgets that in October of an election year, some of us actually feel compelled to do something about making our academic ideas reality. Ivory tower yapping is fun, but if you want anything actually changed, you’d better hit the campaign trail. Bravo to the selfless members of both clubs who left cozy dorm rooms to spend this weekend tromping door-to-door in New Hampshire, where the balance of power in the Senate...