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Undaunted by such trivia, the Crimson juggernaut rolled to early successes this afternoon when Ohiri's record triple jump and Bakkensen's discus throw held up to take first places. An unexpected bonus came from unheralded junior Bill Pfeiffer, who captured a fifth in the disc...
...much of The White House is stuffed with incidental trivia of the did-you-know variety: President Arthur was known as "His Accidency"; U. S. Grant found his wife's crossed eyes rather endearing; Andrew Jackson's wife ordered an inaugural veil with the name JACKSON stitched in lace letters from ear to ear; Mrs. Benjamin Harrison had 2,000 azalea plants delivered daily. A supple cast treats this material with greater respect than it merits, but The White House remains less of a tribute to the nation's highest office than a gossipy raid...
Tragic Grace. The gay and artless sketches (with a lifetime of craft behind each deceptively negligent line) have a heartbreaking quality when the reader recalls that these glittering trivia were cut and polished by a man soon to take his own life. So the reader searches for a clue to the tragic flaw in a nature that seemed all confidence and gallantry, and finds it in a pride so vast that it demanded others live according to Hemingway's own stern and complicated code (even when they could not know the rules), a pride so touchy that it could...
...Much Trivia...
These ideas are not quite as controversial as the dust jacket suggests, but Woodworth should have included more detail about them, and omitted some of the trivia that fills up the rest of the book. Some trivia: a chapter cataloguing the well known abuses of music by restaurants, advertisers and radio stations, another offering unimportant comments about music in churches, and a third summarizing the trends of modern music and urging his readers to be curious about them...