an ivory tower

if you are in an ivory tower, you are in a place or situation where you are separated from ordinary life and its problems How much of the research done by academics in their ivory towers is ever read or published?

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Calbhach	-	Irish
Ryoichi	ṙyo:-ee-chee	Japanese
Reba	['ri:bə]
Ghislain	zheez-LEN, gee-LEN	French
Hene	-	Yiddish
Nathan	NAY-thən (English), na-TAWN (French)	English, French, Hebrew, Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek