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an ivory tower |
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an ivory tower if you are in an ivory tower, you are in a place or situation where you are separated from ordinary life and its problems. How much of the research done by academics in their ivory towers is ever read or published? |
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``The whole homeless advocacy world is busy talking about
governance and structure and things that I guess, in an ivory tower, a
university campus is very important to study up on the 11th floor of a
social science building,'' Yaroslavsky said. Told with wit, dark
humor, and a flair for the dramatic, Lostlindens: An Ivory Tower Mystery
resists being put down until the last page. It may seem that theologians live safely in an ivory tower debating
Christian duty while millions of impoverished or persecuted people cross
international borders in search of a better life. |
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