Sentences with phrase «groves of academe»

Being a family law lawyer myself, with some thirteen years» worth of litigation under my belt before I absconded to the groves of academe, I do understand these sentiments.

But these last works, made in 1989, caused a local firestorm in New York (plus a few groves of academe), where arguments over women's subjugation were fierce.

And thus as research funding and careers become ever more precarious, the groves of academe now reverberate to the sound of bandwagons carrying hordes of physicists on what they hope will be a voyage of discovery — but which could take them round and round in circles.

There was also the undoubted fact that the «new movements» which the Pope supported — of which the Legion of Christ, with its lay wing Regnum Christi, was one of the mosteffective — were themselves deeply distrusted by those «liberals» who preferred, rather than living lives of holiness and self - denial, to live out their apostolates in the more congenial ways of the national and diocesan bureaucracies, the groves of academe and the haunts of the bienpensant media.

It is a transitional work, recognizing the growing importance of the issues liberation theology would deal with but still developed as a theology from the groves of academe, not from the barrio.

As long as even a handful of scholars continue to find her pursuit of goodness attractive, there is hope even for the nearly blighted groves of academe.

In other words, the positive image is to show that, even though one is not literally within the groves of Academe, his robe and his pen are still as dominant in his vocational self - image as if he were a professor.