Word: trivia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what do these people think of Senator Nixon, who discussed his slush fund in terms of the most blatant emotional demagognery, who conjured up his dog, his children, his wife, and all the other irrelevent trivia possible to blur his listeners' intellects with team? What do they think of the epilogue, when Nixon's campaign manager admitted that his boss misused (by Nixon's detinition) the Senatorial franking privilege for political purposes? That Eisenhower should select such a vice-president, that he should allow the possibility of Nixon's assuming the chief executive's office, and that he should permit...
...family going gracefully to seed. Into the Olmstead household comes a Northern son-in-law, brilliant, restless and unhappy. Though he loves his wife, he cannot fit into her family or persuade her to break away from it. Why should they always be kissing and hugging, reminiscing about adolescent trivia, delighting in the vast disorder of their house, and still honoring the obsolete cult of the Southern Lady? Most of The Family is a quarrel-by-quarrel account of a North-South marriage; the rest is a sympathetic picture of the gallant but slipping Olmsteads. As a study in regional...
...does the University see fit to grant any credit whatever for these courses? They certainly contribute not one whit to that education with which Harvard seeks to equip its students; on the contrary, they seriously detract from that education by occupying the students' time with senseless military trivia, and by attempting to inculcate them with values which are completely antiethical to those which Harvard tries to impart...
...their dining hall without even getting out of bed. WHRB is inaugurating a new show, "Music in the Morning," running Monday through Friday from 8 to 10 a.m., which will feature light classical music, news roundups at quarter of and past the hour, weather reports, time checks, and humorous trivia narrated by Alan J. Bell '53, who will announce the show...
...Such Things Ocur." Natchez tempers ran high in Johnson's day. He reports scores of brawls fought with every conceivable hand weapon from bowie knives to whips. Throughout the diary, doctors and businessmen have at each other with such fury that Johnson seems to be stooping to trivia when he records that "Old man Guinea John" stabbed a foe "Just below the navle, Tis supposed that the nife...