Word: toweritis
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...years, Rivers has labeled Gates and other members of the "black elite intelligentsia" as ivory tower intellectuals who do little other than engage in theoreticals, far removed from the facts of life in poor black communities...
Diving school is commanded by a god-like lunatic (Hal Holbrook) who never leaves his tower office but knows what he hates, which is a black man striving for elite status. All but one of Carl's barracks mates move out rather than sleep in the same room with him. Day-to-day training is under the command of Billy Sunday (Robert De Niro), a drunken, brawling redneck who, if he can't drive Carl out of school, would just as soon kill...
...fast enough to allow them to double as digital Walkmans--Walkmans that can be instantly reprogrammed with any song in existence. The era of the shrink-wrapped album with liner notes--and even of traditional pre-programmed radio--may be coming to an end. Chattering radio DJ's and Tower Records, take note...
...Online learning clearly won't be toppling the ivory tower anytime soon. But I now can see how it might augment it. Fairleigh Dickinson University, which announced in September that it would be the first-ever school to require its full-time unders to take one course online each year, may be onto something. Imagine if you could take that required science gut course online as opposed to in a 500-person lecture or polish off that one nagging credit over the summer. Or if two classes conflicted, you could complete one over the Internet on your own time...
Eighteen years ago, mid-way through President Ronald Reagan's first term, Feldstein left the ivory tower for to serve as the chair of Reagan's Council of Economic Advisors...