Word: trivial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Most vociferous of the detractors, Joseph M. Russin '64 called the report "mealy-mouthed" and "pap," claiming that it simply side-stepped the major philosophical issue of whether parietals are simply social administrative rules or are intended to implement a specific moral code. He added that the report's "trivial" requests would hurt chances of future revisions, and that the report probably was unrepresentative of student opinion...
...these problems of the merely real become trivial from the vantage point of metaphysics (Phil. 155), but one need not withdraw so utterly to escape: Spanish 10 surveys Spanish literature for those who can read it, and Soc. Rel. 106 examines the social structure of China and Japan...
Against his disgraceful background of contempt for the moral and legal foundations of this democracy, the offenses of the Albany Movement leaders seem trivial technicalities. Yet it is they whom the Government has decided to pursue; the nearly countless instances of police brutality have not attracted the Attorney General's attention. They are not, apparently, "matters of serious Federal legal concern." Governors Wallace and Barnett remain firmly in office despite flagrant contempt of the Federal courts...
...writing--activities, Houses, sports--savors of doting reminiscence that does not always fall short of preposterousness. If a theme connects them all, it is that soothing time, mingled freely with girls and beer, has left us satiated after many trials. If plays had weaknesses, the weaknesses were trivial, and nicely balanced by (in 327's favorite phrase) a "general excellence." If reading periods annoyed us, we cancelled them afterwards by sitting on the river bank. The Master was decent, the tutors friendly, and the Senior Tutor, to cap the year's outbreaks of Schwaermerei, showed himself a character...
...although membership in the organization itself shows a fairly even distribution of ages. There is good reason for this. The younger people came faithfully, when the group was first established but soon grew bored, finding that the meetings rambled on for hours at a time with promises, protests, and trivial discussions replacing concrete ideas for action...