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...Harvard men left for overseas duty, as Radcliffe women joined the services and as the standard maid service began to disappear, it became clear that even the Ivory Tower was not immune to the turbulence of the times...
...time could come, West says, when he will withdraw from the public stage back into the ivory tower to think through the practical implications of his ideas, while sustaining himself with books, the black church and sweet soul music. Meanwhile, friends say, West has read biographies of the great public intellectuals of the past -- Emerson, Thomas Carlyle, Walt Whitman, Matthew Arnold -- to prepare for the highly visible role that is being thrust upon him, not entirely against his will. After all, if a philosopher like West can't be philosophical about success...
...Once I walked out of the Ivory tower and saw what was going on. I realized what a breakdown there is in the community, she says. "Once you are homeless, it is always a part...
...taunting the Muslims just opposite his firing position. He used to be foreman in a marble quarry that now lies in Muslim territory. He is quick-witted, hearty, good with his hands, and loves to laugh. He has rigged a church bell to an old electrical tower behind the ruined chalet the Serbs have transformed into a machine-gun bunker. "I ring it because it annoys the Muslims," he says. "They open fire when they hear it. We just laugh at them...
Frankly, I'm astounded to find such provincialism in a full-fledged Harvard professor. Such statements can only be regarded as the worst example of the ivy-tower self-removal from the real world to which academics seem particularly prone...