Word: trivia
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...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...
...takes them off. Instead of thinking the same thoughts in the neat manner that we have grown accustomed to, drugs allow the mind to wander and form free associations that hardly seemed possible without them. From the summit of a high one can see what trivia our anxieties are made...
...thick forest of charts, tables and almost totally unrelieved print. Few Americans bother to penetrate this forest-and that is something of a shame. For those who do venture into it, the budget is rich in impressive landmarks, bizarre growths, hidden surprises, hints of the future and enough tantalizing trivia to dine out on for a year. "Budgets," says George Mahon, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, "set goals, chart courses of action, outline expectations and embody anticipations." They are large slices of the nation's life in all its wonderful variety...