Word: tritely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first, that statement sounds trite, but it does have validity. Where do women fit in an institution that for years was a bastion of male thought and scholarship? We're just beginning to carve our presence in The Crimson, the Undergraduate Council, the Institute of Politics. The number of women in the U.C. this year is higher than it's ever been before. The ratio of men to women is slowly moving towards 50:50. On the surface, things look fine...
...came to Harvard because I was convinced that it was the best school in the country, and I now realize that I waste an opportunity every time I shrink from its challenges. It sounds so elementary and trite, but I often forget that I owe the world nothing more than my effort. If I expend myself and do not "measure up," then perhaps I am misdirecting my energy. Perhaps I need to look somewhere else...
...BOTTOM LINE: Despite Secrest's sometimes trite prose, Wright's rich life makes compelling reading...
...dramatic incident and grand gesture. Yet while there have been Wright biographies (including his own maundering, portentous, 1932 memoir), his life hasn't had the acute summation and assessment it deserves. While Meryle Secrest's Frank Lloyd Wright is highly imperfect -- her chats about his personality and architecture are trite almost without exception -- it is still the best so far, a huge and definitive accumulation of fact...
...just a few days, U.C. representative campaigns begin. Students can probably expect the usual. Kinko's wide range of neon colors will brighten the campus, featuring bad top-ten lists and trite, self-serving words like "commitment," "dedication" and "experience...