Word: trivia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stepdaughter (step-incest?). Nothing happens, though, because that is not really what Merighi wants: "She represented the nullity which I would be able to love simply because it was nullity." The book is in the form of a diary that Merighi keeps in the hope that its recorded trivia will support a novel in which nothing happens. But that doesn't happen either...
...Member of the Funeral. The reader is amazed at her amazement. The rest of the book is a merciless record of the trivia of death-old age and bed wetting, pubic baldness, enemas, Levin tubes, indignity, pain-all made tolerable because it also sets down the stages by which this renowned intellectual prig came to terms with her natural feelings and at the end allowed herself tears at a Catholic funeral, without even sneering at the priest beyond pointing out that he had trousers on under his chasuble. It acknowledges: "I did not understand that one might sincerely weep...
...scholastic tendency has hit trivia. Edwin Goodgold and Dan Carlinsky alphabetized all the major trivialities and arranged them so that you can't see the answer without having the person in the next stall at Lamont know you're cheating. A special twenty-question section for the connoisseur, even asks you to name Milton Berle's mother. (No, not Mrs. Berle.) A reading period necessity published by Dell for only fifty cents...
...last thing iguana do is make anemone by speaking with too much condor or sound as if I'm yakking or harpying about trivia, but still llama bit put out at your aukward article about the Ghana fitchewation. Every minotaur language seems to be losing whatever lynx remain with the deer old English we once gnu and loved. It used to comfort ocelot to pick up TIME and read straight-forward copy without being exposed to the whims of devilfish writers. And, alas, even TIME is now tapiring off in a manner that has us aphid linguiphiles so worked...
While funds have been raised privately for a memorial to the late President only three blocks away (TIME, Dec. 24, 1965), many citizens were shocked at the tawdry boosterism of the city-approved legend. The juxtaposition of "historical trivia with a happening of transcendent significance," observed the Dallas Times-Herald, "will appear to many an attempt to evade the stark fact that a President of the United States was assassinated here, or at best an attempt to pass the event off as one of minor consequence...