Word: academicization
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Mikels insists that he has always worked clean, not wanting to leave his family with "a legacy of distaste"; thus, even movies with wonderfully lurid titles like "Blood Orgy of the She Demons" are essentially G-rated. "Apartheid" doesn't depart too much from this philosophy, except for the fact...
"He has a great affinity for the academic life," Noah says. "It is entirely speculation on my part, it's probably unlikely, but it's at least as worth discussing as any of the other names I've seen mentioned."
Former Overseer Joan M Hutchins '61 says the next University President must have a true understanding of higher education issues. The University needs a true academic--and she doesn't consider Gore to be one.
Academic search expert John W. Chandler, of the headhunting firm Academic Search Consultation Service, says that search committees and governing boards sometimes take an interest in prominent politicos but rarely appoint them.
Why? Not to impress me, I assure you. It's simply that he loves traveling in academic territory. If his tendency to sometimes talk like a monograph comes off as bullying, it's a flaw of style. Live with it. When he is President, we will all smile it off...