Sentences with phrase «private ivory tower»

But I very much doubt that in this day, save among the very few people who manage to live in splendid isolation from the world in some kind of private ivory tower, people are really as self - satisfied as that.

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While Berger's rightward drift isolated him from a left - leaning academic establishment, it also connected him to a new and wider world beyond the ivory tower, a world of D.C. think tanks and private foundations, of government officials and Texas billionaires.

Perhaps the ivory towers of education and research could open up more to allow more interactions across disciplines, as well as with the private sector and society at large, to constantly transfer, extend, and broaden new knowledge and technologies.