Word: trivia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...subordinates, just as he has done to excellent effect with his campaign organization. Humphrey has pointed out a number of times that the Bible is unconcerned with efficiency but deeply involved with compassion. On the day-to-day operating level, Humphrey could be expected to concern himself with more trivia than Nixon, to spread himself thinner, to put up with more intramural disorder...
Elizabeth Bowen is one of the few of Virginia Woolf's many imitators who learned something positive from her fragile literary experiments. Instead of stringing endless psychological trivia, Bowen builds a strong psychic mood by carefully picking her details-cars, lies, daydreams-and arranging them with an experienced, measuring feminine...
Galbraith said yesterday he agrees with Hoving's widely-publicized charge that network TV is "trivia." Many people want trivia, but some mixture of "good broadcasting with the trivia" is needed, he said...
...answers to such questions about historic personages, along with other more or less fascinating oddments of Americana, now await tourists and trivia enthusiasts at Washington's new National Portrait Gallery. For its opening exhibit, called "This New Man: A Discourse in Portraits," the gallery assembled 173 likenesses of figures from American history (see color pages). Though the gallery already owns some 500 pictures, it reached outside its own store and borrowed about three-quarters of the portraits now on show. Paintings, busts, daguerreotypes, cartoons, and even occasional photographs are arranged in rooms that were liberally draped with flags...
...most European countries, even some of the Communist bloc, the alleged offenses would be classified as trivia. The Madrid daily El Alcazar, for example, was fined $375 for erroneously reporting that a Falangist leader had paid a call on Franco. A Barcelona editor was given an eight-month prison term for publishing a letter that denounced Catalan nationalism-a letter that echoed the government's own views. Why, then, was he punished? In a nation where veiled irony and subtle ridicule have been wielded so often in place of open criticism, nervous officials may detect calculated mischief-making even...