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Sun 16 Mar, 2008 06:13 am
Quote:So why has the centre of gravitas shifted towards America? One reason is the deep pockets of America's universities, the resources and reputations of which are able to attract the world's best thinkers and afford them the time to cogitate and write at their leisure.
The above quotation talks about the fact that Europe used to produce many great thinkers, but now it is America that generates lots of new ideas.
I'd like to know what does the phrase in bold type?
In any field, thinking, trade, creation, there's always places considered to be the leaders. By metaphor, they are said to be the center of gravity.
The above, a quote from an article by James Harkin, is a play on words, in all seriousness, about the correlation between gravity and gravitas, which originally are the same...
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