Word: trivial
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME is supposed to give us the significant news of the week. Why, then, do you waste so much valuable space on trivial events...
...seek out the sources of my thoughts," he writes in The Coming of Fate, "I find they had their beginning in fragile Chance; were born of little moments that shine for me curiously in the past. Slight the impulse that made me take this turning at the crossroads, trivial and fortuitous the meeting, and light as gossamer the thread that first knit me to my friend.... So I never lose a sense of the whimsical and perilous charm of daily life, with its meetings and words and accidents. Why, today, perhaps, or next week. I may hear a voice...
...Importance of Being Earnest," presented last night by the Radcliffe Idler, is Oscar Wilde at his witty and fantastic best. Based on a trivial pun, the play is, nevertheless, almost perfection of its kind. The present production, sympathetically directed by Mrs. Mark de Wolfe Howe, shows that for all its fifty years, it is still excellent entertainment...
There is some truth in Bernard Shaw's contention that it seems "a farcical comedy of the seventies, not performed at the time, because it was too witty and too decent," but it has, too, a strong kinship with the insincere and trivial, but highly amusing, social comedies of the Restoration. Altogether, it is a genial, if shallow exposition of Wilde's philosophy, a philosophy in which literature is governed by style and not ideas, and life by taste rather than ideals...
Fallen Angel (20th Century-Fox) drags its feathers through an hour and a half of melodramatic fiddle-faddle that is just promising enough to sharpen the edge of disappointment. Good direction by Otto (Laura) Preminger and competent acting cannot quite save a picture whose whole is far more trivial than the sum of its individual parts...