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Figure 1. An Ivory Tower, virtuously damaged and about to fall down, depicted on the cover of the summer 1939 number of Direction, a periodical publication of the left-wing, anti-Fascist American Writers’ Congress. Source: Harvard College Library, Widener Library, P 149.6. 10 Steven Shapin.
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The Ivory Tower can be tracked back to antiquity and to biblical sources. Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon' (Song of Songs 7:4).2 In the Odyssey (Bk 19, 560-569), Penelope, dreaming of the return of her husband, says, Those dreams that pass through the gate of sawn ivory deceive men, bringing words that
Aug 9, 2017 · The phrase ivory tower denotes a state of privileged seclusion or separation from the facts and practicalities of the real world. This phrase is a loan translation from French tour d’ivoire.
An ivory tower is a state of privileged seclusion from the practicalities of real life. An ivory tower can be a place where people choose to disconnect from the rest of the world to follow of their own interests, usually mental or esoteric ones.
Feb 27, 2012 · In 1942 the President of Sarah Lawrence College defended its supposedly ‘ivory tower’ liberal-arts curriculum against the charge of irrelevance: Constance Warren, ‘Gives support to liberal arts’, New York Times, 7 June 1942. Both of these usages were coloured by wartime circumstances.
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Mar 1, 2012 · This is a historical survey of how and why the notion of the Ivory Tower became part of twentieth- and twenty-first-century cultural vocabularies. It very briefly tracks the origins of the...
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Coastal traders, using Ujiji as a base, cross Lake Tanganyika to obtain ivory and slaves in eastern Congo. Nyamwezi traders operate in areas west of the corridor between Lake Tanganyika and Lake Malawi.
