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ivory tower

Phrase coined by French poet Gérard de Nerval as an imaginary goal for poets away from direct political involvement pour nous isoler de la foule, ‘to keep us apart from the crowd’.



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But, as these hard cases make clear, the parsing of "extraordinary" and "ordinary" care are not restricted to the ivory towers of moralists.
That we might incubate in our disembodied, cold ivory towers some balance of light and dark, of sun and wind?
are only the most brazen of the barbarians massing at the gates of higher education's ivory towers.
 
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