From the AtlanticBlog:
On July 29, 1977, the AEI held a forum on academia and politics, chaired by John Charles Daly, and including Robert Bork, S.I. Hayakawa, Irving Kristol, and Daniel Patrick Moynihan. It begins with this bit of wisdom from Moynihan.
Daly: How deeply has the academic community affected government policy?
Moynihan: Sam Hayakawa and I agreed ahead of time that we would say academia.
Daly: I knew I was going to have a problem. I must confess that I asked Professor Hayakawa how to pronounce that silly word. I have been pronouncing it four different ways all day, and I doubt very much I will have it right before the night is out, but I will try.
Moynihan: You can remember the pronounciation by thinking of academia nuts.
No quarrel with that.
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