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Few figures in the language of literary criticism have been more widely used and abused than that of the ivory tower. Invented, in its modern sense, over a hundred years ago, it became fashionable in the 1930's, popular in the '40s, and remains both fashionable and popular today. It has, presumably, not once but often passed the lips of any reader of these lines. It has engendered phrases that bid fair to become equally favoured, such as the ivory laboratory in which science segregates itself and the ivory sewer of dirt for art's sake. What is its background?
Title: Ivory Tower
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Few figures in the language of literary criticism have been more widely used and abused than that of the ivory tower.
Invented, in its modern sense, over a hundred years ago, it became fashionable in the 1930's, popular in the '40s, and remains both fashionable and popular today.
It has, presumably, not once but often passed the lips of any reader of these lines.
It has engendered phrases that bid fair to become equally favoured, such as the ivory laboratory in which science segregates itself and the ivory sewer of dirt for art's sake.
What is its background?.
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