Word: trivia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Trivia & Fluffs. As always, the ubiquitous TV reporters caught some memorable glimpses: the unchivalrous disinterest of newspaper-reading delegates on ladies' day; NBC's pickup of the small but illuminating drama of Adlai Stevenson's reception for Mrs. Roosevelt; Bess Truman, behind dark glasses, nudging Harry in the ribs for speaking out of turn; bottle-bald Sam Rayburn (who did not submit to a dulling topsoil application of orange powder this time, as he did the last) threatening to shoot an admonishing finger right through the little glass screens in U.S. living rooms; the grin spreading across...
...relentless camera magnified the trivia and underlined the fluffs, caught the convention's heights and hollows−;and its occasional signs of petulance and flippancy−Truman dressing down a reporter who was badgering him for an interview; Tennessee's Governor Clement hamming it up for photographers; Paul Butler boiling mad over CBS's failure to run a documentary film (see PRESS...
...talent into exploring the offbeat byways of color and anecdote as well as the lofty heights of analysis and interpretation. Ironically, some of the best punditry came not from Chicago but from Washington, where Columnist Walter Lippmann watched the convention on TV. Some of the sidebars ran to outlandish trivia, e.g., the contents of Adlai Stevenson's laundry bag, but some of it reached new levels of excellence. For entertainment, few reporters could equal the New York Herald Tribune's wisecracking Sports Columnist Red Smith, who dealt with the convention like an athletic contest, sprinkled his copy with...
...either name, the Times (slogan: "All the News Without Fear or Favor") is a shining postwar example for the free press in a country which, with 143 dailies, gets a heavy diet of sob stories and sensationalism. The eight-page Japan Times conscientiously buries trivia, tries painstakingly to cover the news in depth...
...minded world of his "bourgeois" (no Marxist connotations) fellow man? For Wilson, Nijinsky summed it up in his diary when he wrote: "The whole life of my wife and of all mankind is death." To Nijinsky and his fellow Outsiders, the average man is drifting on a tide of trivia, self-deception, automatic, day-to-day actions that never reach any significant "level of intensity." Preoccupied with his seemingly orderly daily round, the average man loses touch with the supreme reality of death, according to Wilson, and with the sense of chaos that Santayana says is "perhaps at the bottom...