Word: towerish
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...more sympathetic toward Zorza's simplified analysis of Harvard as a detached, anti-humanistic society if his own conception of those who have the right to say "we" were not so limited. In fact, Zorza envisions a reform movement that is every bit as shut off and ivory towerish as the University he disparages. At one point, he rejoices to find that...
...fish was meant to be swimming. But the slab, gently curved and polished to paperknife thinness, did seem to move somehow, and the uneven grain of the marble gave it a wavering, watery air. It was no small feat to make stone come alive. The Fish might be ivory-towerish, but no one could call it a joke...
...looked around and up at a pleased-looking bronzed lad, yelled, "Sturdy!" and suddenly his freshman year was near and vividly remembered. Sturtevant Pendrake had been the most aggressively self-conscious dilettante and social figure in Vag's prewar circle. Vag had at that time known many ivy-towerish characters, but he still recalled his start of surprise at walking into Sturdy's room and finding ivy growing on the inside walls, deep and luxuriant. Sturdy it was who started the fad of the costs of many tailors: sleeves by Chipp, lapels by Press, pockets by Brooks...
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