Word: trivia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hair. He speaks deeply and slowly, in tones that Everett Dirksen might envy, confident of his audience, very much at ease with them. He is a man used to power. He likes to share a story, and there is in him a politician's love for the trivia of American history...
...this jejune January your baseball trivia quiz provided a hopeful harbinger of spring. I therefore waited eagerly for the quiz's omniscient propounder to provide the answer to the one query I couldn't cope with. Thus, you can imagine the crisis of faith I have been subjected to since discovering that Mr. Powers knows no more than I the identity of the youngest pitcher to win a major-league game...
...estimated that the number of allied and enemy casualties during the week of Nov. 24 well exceeded the 2,000 mark. I hardly think that this squandering of human life can be condoned by a failure on the part of the negotiators to agree among themselves on such trivia. If they cannot quickly settle these questions, what faith can we place in them to negotiate a lasting settlement...
Seldom does Cooke slip into his genre's pitfall: bad amateur anthropology. Their wit not withstanding, his comments on the effect of air conditioning on New York family life do fall into this class, as they become contrived expositions of trivia. He is safer--and much more entertaining--when he sticks to the looser descriptive style of which he is a master...
...Republic are crumbling, scholars at this University have a double obligation--to themselves and their fellow citizens of all races and creeds--to pursue their studies diligently. It is therefore to be regretted that an otherwise worthy publication recently saw fit to sponsor a so-called "Television Trivia Quiz" whose only purpose was to seduce these students from their rightful duties into the paths of sloth represented by Channel Four and the like...