Word: trivia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your handling of this matter was superb. Historical changes have always been brought about by significant causes so obvious that it seems incredible they weren't properly understood. Nearly always, however, they were obscured by contemporary trivia which seemed more important at the time...
...Douglas at the N.A.M.'s farewell dinner in Buffalo: "Our office has wasted its money and we have wasted our time on this trip, because of the censorship. I have been reduced to a practice for which I have little talent, namely that of writing trivia...
...very first day when things went badly at Kota Bahru Airdrome (TIME, Dec. 22), the end had seemed as inevitable as death from an incurable disease. And so, toward the end, Singapore's society, like a dying person already long acquainted with death, went mechanically on with the trivia of daily habit...
...reason there have been few of their products worth playing more than halfway through within the past few weeks. None of the smaller companies specializing in jazz records--Blue Note, Commodore, and Signature--have produced anything this fall. The larger companies turn out their usual quota of bagatelles and trivia every week, but only here and there does a pearl of price appear, a record which can be listened to more than once with unabated enjoyment...
...beginning to read more & more, about a poet whom people have been reading less & less. Had Milton known that Logan Pearsall Smith would one day defend him, he would probably have cried again: "Avenge O Lord thy slaughter'd Saints." A defense by the dilettante author of Trivia, More Trivia and All Trivia could seem scarcely less incongruous to the author of Paradise Lost than the Restoration...