Word: trivia
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...book that is essentially picayune, losing much of its possible force by giving as much emphasis to trivia such as grounds as it does to faculty. Yet for the careful reader, everything is there. It is a scathing indictment of the state, its bigoted whites, and its apathetic Negroes...
...book that is essentially picayune, losing much of its possible force by giving as much emphasis to trivia such as grounds as it does to faculty. Yet for the careful reader, everything is there. It is a scathing indictment of the state, its bigoted whites, and its apathetic Negroes...
Dulles regards Molotov as one of the most resourceful diplomats of the 20th century, but he does not fear to tangle with him, for he is confident that the West is in a sounder position. He refused to be frustrated by procedural trivia. He yielded when opposition was time wasted. He forced the pace when the Russians sought delay. "If conferences can do nothing better than to create new conferences, and the new conferences do nothing better than to create more new conferences . . . the whole conference method will become an object of ridicule, and we with it," he warned Molotov...
Hansen was not concerned with such trivia. Said he: "To ask me to perpetrate, on the battlefield at Yorktown, a composition in sculpture bastardized according to the collective idea of a government bureaucracy, is asking of me not only the services of my body but the devastating perdition of my soul...
...must persist in reporting such trivia, put it in Sport...