Word: trivial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...down. In the years since the Senate hearings, he has spent just one night behind bars, meanwhile dwelling on the $160,000 estate he built with Teamster money. Ironically, of all the charges of wholesale corruption brought against him, he stands convicted of two of the most trivial-pocketing $1,900 from the sale of a Teamster-owned Cadillac, and allowing false information to appear on tax statements he neither saw nor signed...
...summer residents at the deteriorating mansion run by Constance Tuckerman, General Benjamin Griggs desperately wants a divorce from his frightened, trivial, once-pretty wife. She needs him enough to make him stay, and the great departure he had believed in, dissolves...
Ruddigore, as presented by the Harvard Gilbert and Sullivan Players, is a very pleasant evening. If Mr. Philip Alston Stone, the director, has chosen to emphasize the more trivial aspects of an operetta at once both trifling and consequential (its plot, that is to say, is ridiculous; its music divine), no one can blame him--for he often makes the foolishness seem funny, a considerable accomplishment...
...since it isn't, they are merely the most promising young pair of romanticomedians currently in camerange. Last year they got off to a funning start in Where the Boys Are, then made a clattering success of The Honeymoon Machine. Now they have imparted their talent for the trivial to a dogface farce that may not fracture any funny bones, but manages at least to pile up a bumper crop of nuts on the usual Pacific island...
...gods of Homer emerge distinct and individual without losing their immortal shimmer. If the gods are sometimes seen as trivial or spoiled human beings, it is because they are not viewed as they were in Homeric times. Homer's original disteners understood the behavior of the gods in a different context of beliefs, and from a different fundamental awareness of the world...