Word: towering
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After a few years as the head of the Labor Department, Kennedy appointed Goldberg to the Supreme Court. It was widely reported that he found the ivory tower atmosphere stifling, not exciting enough for an avowed activist. Yet in late 1964, reports began to circulate that Goldberg had gotten used to his new job, and was beginning to enjoy his role in determining long-term Constitutional principles. Yet he left abruptly in July, 1965, to succeed the late Adlai Setvenson as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations...
...BIRTH of the Kennedy Institute of Politics has not been a quiet one. Right from the beginning the Institute has been under fire for its controversial Honorary Associates program which brought both McNamara and Goldberg to the Ivory Tower. Since then Henry Fairlie, British freelancer, has labeled the Institute a "recruiting college" for future Kennedy advisors...
...Left has a problem, Lipset continues, because they can't have it both ways. They complain first that they don't have any courses which are applicable today-- "We (the Left) are locked up in an Ivory Tower which has no contact with the events of today." But when the Ivory Tower is torn down, and the real world turns out to be the Establishment, then they want to rebuild their fortress--their Ivory Tower. "What the Left really wants is a politicized campus with a Left Penchant," or else they will scream that Theory is their protection against short...
...administration, the abrasive controversy over the firing of U.C. president Clark Kerr (see EDUCATION), former California G.O.P. Chairman Gaylord Parkinson was spreading the word at New Orleans that the Governor was now "holding the door open" for the presidential nomination. In recent weeks, Texas' Republican Senator John Tower and Florida's new G.O.P. Governor Claude Kirk Jr. have made separate pilgrimages to Sacramento, each of them agreeing to go to the 1968 convention as favorite-son candidates. Reagan made the same decision...
...favorite-son gambit, in fact, has caught on in almost every key state. Besides Reagan, Tower and Kirk, the likely list now includes Ohio's James Rhodes, Pennsylvania's Raymond Shafer, either Percy or Everett Dirksen in Illinois, Rockefeller or Jacob Javits in New York. Romney strategists, realizing that their candidate has to build first-ballot strength in the primaries, are planning intensive campaigns in four states: New Hampshire, Nebraska, Oregon and Wisconsin...