Word: tritely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...political philosophy; we can, with an effort, keep our gorge down when he says he can never forget a certain line in "Kubla Khan" and proceeds to mangle its beauty by misquotation. But when, after rising in a valiant crescendo of commonplace through pages and pages of the quintessential trite, he comes forth with the astounding conclusion that "Literature is Life," we can only throw down the book and gasp...
...plot, although trite, is lively enough to provide an evening of more or less semi-conscious entertainment. The acting is not too rosy, but will pass. I do not recommend the vaudeville which accompanies the picture on the stage of keith's Boston...
...general low standard of acting in the films or whether it is due to some innate ability in Mr. Baer, is a problem for individual solution. Myrna Loy and Walter Buston turn in their usual creditable performances, and Otto Kruger manages, in spite of the natural limitations of his trite role, to touch the high spots from time to time...
...preparation. As long as these courses must exist it is neither necessary to substantiate the statement that the American preparatory schools are the worst in the western world, nor to catalogue and examine the wretchedness of those Dotheboys Halls which can supply only with difficulty the paltry store of trite facts necessary for the inadequate college entrance examinations. As long as these courses are necessary the student who is interested in knowledge apart from grades or gin will be as rare as that missing link, the civilized American. As long as such courses are necessary, academic reform will only...
...year of planned recovery for Dartmouth. Recovery not only from the depths of athletic slump, but better still from the depths of listlessness and cynicism which had begun to surround the college life. At the same time it is not meant to be something like the old and trite "Do or Die for Harvard" collegiana. There are hopes it will reach deeper...