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...encouraged by society to transform reality; but a woman is expected to fulfill her intellectual and creative aspirations in homemaking and community social service. Consequently she practices what Tillich would call "self-reduction," in which she tries to find the whole of reality by participating in society-sanctioned trivia...
...Time for Trivia. Unlike rural communes, which often take in a whole county, those abuilding in China's cities are generally organized around a single factory, government bureau or city neighborhood. To pave the way for urban communes. China's rulers have long been pushing the establishment of neighborhood mess halls, nurseries and housecleaning services, thus relieving women of "trivial housework'' and freeing them for industry. Thanks to this program, 220,000 ex-housewives in Peking alone are now employed in newly established "street industries"-small workshops or factories operated by 30 or 40 inhabitants...
...frame from his first-row seat and tersely asked unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to consider a minor bill already passed by the House. Senators drifting into the chamber almost ignored the majority leader's routine request, which was routinely granted. The bill, a piece of legislative trivia, would authorize the Army to lease an unused barracks building at Fort Crowder to neighboring Stella, Mo. (pop. 177) to replace its burned schoolhouse. Only Master Parliamentarian Johnson knew that, in this quietly innocuous fashion, the civil rights debate of 1960 had begun...
...minimized by a careless arrangement that breaks up obvious sets, such as Adam and Eve, and ignores considerations of size and color. But what remains the most regrettable artistic defect of this exhibit is the burial of some works of artistic worth in a mass of readily salable trivia...
...Under orders from President Eisenhower not to spill the beans of Ike's private talks with Macmillan, Hagerty fell back on trivia, soon began sounding like a parody of himself. A sample Hagerty announcement: "I have one bit of hard news. Mr. Berding∣State Department press officer∣ was asked this morning if the President was sleeping in a four-poster bed, and the answer is yes, and also if he had ever slept before in a four-poster bed, and the answer is also...