Word: towering
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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First there was Beyond the Ivory Tower: Social Responsibilities of the Modern University in 1982, and then Higher Learning in 1986. And just this year, Bok published Universities and the Future of America...
When Bok assumed the presidency, the connection between the ivory tower and the real world had never been under greater scrutiny...
...intrigue, duplicity and sex of running Harvard University, Bok could guarantee himself a place on the bestsellers' list--and the lecture tour--for years to come. Acting Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky's The University: An Owner's Manual would pale in comparison to Bok's The University: Tower of Lust. Odds...
...enough of this sappy stuff. Jim Henson was a fun guy and the most loveable creator on television. His death doesn't mean the end of Sesame Street. The muppets offer universal and timeless lessons--even for our ivory tower of esoteric knowledge...
...Carnegie Report and others like it are searching hard for ways to rebuild the sense of community that should characterize the campus -- and society at large. The report prescribes a "Campus Compact" that universities must adopt if they are to restore peace to the ivory tower. The compact embraces principles of justice, openness and discipline that are meant to form the foundation of a "community of learning." But no seminar or speech or required reading will change overnight the attitudes embedded in a culture that children absorb while growing up. Nor will they easily break the cycle of hate...