Who Is an Ivory Tower?
An Ivory Tower Is a Metaphorical Place—or an Atmosphere—Where People Are Happily Cut off from the Rest of the World in Favor of Their Own Pursuits, Usually...
An ivory tower is a metaphorical place—or an atmosphere—where people are happily cut off from the rest of the world in favor of their own pursuits, usually mental and esoteric ones.
Why is it called an ivory tower?
In Andrew Hodges' biography of the University of Cambridge scientist Alan Turing, he discusses Turing's 1936-38 stay at Princeton University and writes that "[t]he tower of the Graduate College was an exact replica of Magdalen College, and it was popularly called the Ivory Tower, because of that benefactor of Princeton ...
Is there a real ivory tower?
There never was an Ivory Tower. ... There are towers and there is ivory, both quite real; it is their combination in the idea of an Ivory Tower which is both imaginary and consequential. Physical towers had both mundane and symbolic aspects.
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