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...come through with its usual assortment of trivia, phoniness, and institutionalized rah-rah. Maybe, in the dim beyond, its editors will mature, but they haven...
Middle of the Night, for example, is full of baby-sitter, telephone, shoes-off-in-the-living-room, talk-frankly-about sex realism. Nearly every little detail is honest and well observed, but some seem at the same time to be examples of unselective realism, of cliches and trivia...
Freud made few contributions in later life to the actual practice of psychoanalysis or its adaptation in more conventional psychiatric treatment. While he wrote abundantly, much of his output dealt with analytic trivia, and the rest was in sweeping, philosophic terms-despite his prejudice against "philosophical convolutions...
...scientists quickly pointed out that the science major is far too busy in his own field to waste time on the elementary trivia with which the Nat. Sci. courses, by their very nature, must deal, and therefore should not be forced to spend a year at the lower level...
...Sacred Laws. With such a definition; much of the trivia and confusion now rampant in the schools would be eliminated. Such skills as reading, for instance, are obviously indispensable in making wise decisions, but basket-weaving is something else again. "Social adjustment, in the sense of 'getting along with people,' or conformity, is not an educational aim. An education must include learning how to choose when it is best not to conform, and when one should differ." The fact, says Woodring, is that education must be primarily intellectual, for "all choice is intellectual...