1) Academia, to some 2) Academic enclave 3) Asylum for the impractical 4) Enclave for the impractical 5) Enclave of impracticality 6) Fourteenth fortress 7) Hideaway for the impractical 8) Isolated place 9) Lofty place for an academic 10) Lookout for some 11) Mountain of Marie Byrd Land 12) Piano mover
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[Harvard Undergraduate Television] Ivory Tower (for the period of 1999–2003, known as Tales from the Ivory Tower) is a long-running college soap opera. It was first conceived of in 1993 as part of Harvard-Radcliffe Television (now Harvard Undergraduate Television) at Harvard University. The show is currently in its eleventh season. ==Hist...
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[Van Morrison song] Clinton Heylin writes this about the song `A chorus about how tough `It really must be/ To be me, to see like me, to feel like me` threatens the spirituality self-effacing mood he had previously maintained.` Biographer John Collis takes the same viewpoint by saying `Ivory Tower, totally breaks the mold - it`s an r`n`b sh...
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The term ivory tower originates in the Biblical Song of Solomon (7:4) and was later used as an epithet for Mary. From the 19th century it has been used to designate a world or atmosphere where intellectuals engage in pursuits that are disconnected from the practical concerns of everyday life. It usually carries pejorative connotations of a willful...
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A derogatory term for a place, situation, or philosophical outlook that ignores or overlooks practic
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The metaphorical dwelling place of those who are detached from the realities of every day life e.g. some academics.
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n] - a state of mind that is discussed as if it were a place
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noun a state of mind that is discussed as if it were a place; `he lived in the ivory tower of speculation`; `they viewed universities as ivory towers`
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a place or situation remote from worldly or practical affairs: the university as an ivory tower. · an attitude of aloofness from or disdain or disregard for worldly or practical affairs: his ivory tower of complacency.
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