Word: academia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...academic field has expanded in another respect: money. Professors' salaries have increased substantially since World War II. Men no longer are deterred from college teaching by the penury it entails. In consequence, academia has been opened to middle class men. No longer is it dominated by the well-to-do who have independent incomes. Academic life has become a prime avenue of social mobility...
Actually, Candy is funny. It's wicked, of course, but then any book that is in part a parody of pornography would have to get a bit rough now and then. Pornography is only one of the authors' targets, however. Before the tale is told, psychology, academia, mysticism, television, Greenwich Village, and Ugly Americans all feel the hard bite of Candy's satire. Candy is only as dirty as the reader's mind...
...contend that these languages have intrinsically greater importance for Harvard graduates than the second language of Latin America, the language of its greatest nation. This comparison might be funny as a case study in the irrelevance of much of academia, were it not that Harvard is counted on to produce educated public servants. These men must be able to explain and understand what will be happening in these resource-rich, potentially powerful nations to our South...
Take an IBM machine and feed in a gossip column. Then throw in a couple of back issues of the Congressional Record and several academic mortarboards. There you have The McLandress Dimension, a tongue-in-cheek commentary on contemporary American politics, academia, and society...
Today, accordingto Sizer's report, the M.A.T. degree is "well established in American academia." Similar ventures have been established by Yale, Chicago Stanford, Johns Hopkins, Oberlin, and Wesleyan...