Word: trivial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Senator Goldwater had something there, but what was wrong with U.S. TV? Bad producers? Meddling sponsors? Too many commercials? Well, maybe. But Goldwater had a sweeping political-sociological explanation. "I do not believe," said he, "in our present social state, dominated as it is by a trivial conception of man-dominated as it is by superficial reformers who expect to save and to protect and to remake man through government action-I do not believe that either great tragedy or great comedy is possible in such an environment...
...this movie won't make anybody believe it or even care. The moviemakers clearly want people to care. Director Vincente Minnelli and Actor Douglas have worked hard on the film. They are dead serious-and therein lies their error: the subject is too trivial for serious treatment. It could probably be more tellingly developed as a farce. Imagine all those cinemoguls washing their dirty Lincolns in public...
Like most Negro church services here, NAACP meetings usually get underway about 45 minutes late. They are usually held in a formally arranged church meeting hall, which permits a fairly strict adherence to parlimentary order. Even the most trivial decisions must be moved, seconded, and then voted upon...
...major revolutions in the French (or World) theatre, they were, all the same, uncontested experts in the no less noble endeavor of showing their contemporaries the laughable side of a life too often taken too seriously by too many. This is not to say that their works are necessarily trivial. One the contrary; they can, and often do, contain food for reflection, albeit of an easy-going and not-too-taxing variety...
...children and in males of any age, German measles is a trivial disease-totally different from ordinary measles (rubeola). The elusive virus now isolated cannot be generally used as a readymade vaccine because of the danger that children might transmit the infection to pregnant women. So scientists are trying to make it safe, by killing the virus (as in Salk polio shots) or weakening it (as in Sabin oral vaccine...