Word: towerism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whatever the portent, things were different in the academic world last year--different and difficult--and they continue so this year. The ivory tower has become a laughably grotesque symbol of the contemporary institution of higher learning. What do we do in such troubled circumstance as we are now experiencing? I suspect the path of prudence for those of us in positions of responsibility for academic institutions is simply to stay alert, to keep mindful of our distant goals, and in a tumultuous sea, to navigate as best we can. Fortunately, difficulties of the unsettling kind now being experienced...
During the Council hearings on the amendment his firm requested, Rufo said that--if the amendment were refused--he planned to construct a single tower of over 20 stories on the site...
...basically good and that the university is a place for objective scholarship make students think that they are engaged in a process of learning (abstract learning), and in no way part of the struggle between the oppressors and the oppressed. Students come to see themselves in an ivory tower, above the real world, in which the U.S. commits genocide against the Vietnamese people and oppresses Black people at home...
...stricken freshman described the illness as "just feeling rotten all over, particularly in the gut." Another said "My stomach felt like it was having inner turmoil. My head was throbbing like a bell-tower. I felt...
...signal or by overriding another program with a Soviet program. This technique, however, works well only within a three-mile radius of the transmitter. Sky-wave jamming, the second technique, calls for transmission from a point as far away as the source of the outside signal. This requires expensive tower construction in remote areas and constant monitoring of the ionosphere, off which radio waves are bounced from sender to receiver...