Word: trivia
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...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...
...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...