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- Dictionaryivory tower
noun
- 1. a state of privileged seclusion or separation from the facts and practicalities of the real world: "the ivory tower of academia"
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3 days ago · When Chomsky was in his teens he read Orwell’s “Animal Farm,” “which,” he told me in 1995, “struck me as amusing but pretty obvious”; but in his later teens he read “Homage to Catalonia” “and thought it outstanding (though he overdid the POUM role I felt, not surprisingly given where he was); it confirmed beliefs I already had about the Spanish Civil War.” “Homage to ...
2 days ago · Ivory Tower serves as a critical lens through which viewers can explore the commodification of higher education and the challenges to educational access and equity. Media and Journalism in Focus. In "Page One: Inside the New York Times," Rossi scrutinizes the role of journalism amidst evolving digital landscapes. The documentary presents a ...
2 days ago · Such calls come on the back of a two-decades-long BDS campaign by pro-Palestinian academics and students. Anglophone universities, though, have been much less inclined to take a stance on the Gaza war – or, indeed, on the 7 October massacre of Israelis by Hamas that sparked it – than they were on the Ukrainian invasion, sparking criticism ...
2 days ago · It turned out ivory towers were less dangerous than those of substandard concrete. New and stolid roads were expunged from the ground, resembling dominos, restricting access for days, while affected areas were in a post-apocalyptic state: shops closed and without water and gas, even if one’s building still stood.
4 days ago · However, according to the position paper’s authors, the term remains mainly known by those in the “ivory tower” (Wood-Barcalow et al., 2024). Positive body image is a multidimensional concept.
4 days ago · Their presumptuous arrogance from ivory towers is actively injurious, for it leads to manipulation and desecration and degradation of the values and ethics that form the basal effective relational structures within society. It’s because people who mean real business, want them out of the way.
5 days ago · Accentuating the notion that leadership should not be siloed within the ivory towers of theory, Sharma lays out a vision where the test of a true practitioner is their efficacy in the field—not just in their capacity to understand deep concepts but more importantly, to apply them in tangible, complex situations of everyday life.
