Word: trivial
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...risk of sounding trivial, I confess that I vaguely feel an infringement of my rights as an individual student. When enrolling at Harvard, I was not aware that I was signing up for a book or record club. If, in a rush, I neglect to waive my induction into the ranks of PIRG supporters, I am nevertheless penalized. I freely admit that such a scenario may border on the absurd; yet, I would like to raise the following point for discussion. The authors of the previously quoted article wrote that "...a failure to respond to the expressed preference...
...anticipate that this stance may be labeled pedantic or trivial; in any case, a simple solution would be to push for a positive check-off status. I would eagerly support such a drive, and may even elect to pay the due. If, on the other hand, free choice is not the sole issue, then the burden rests with the proponents of PIRG to show cause as to why they favor imposing a burden, however slight, and even on a hypothetical minority, who elect not to support the organization...
...reiterate that I am sympathetic with the causes which PIRG espouse. I suppose that it a majority expresses the desire to institute the plan, I will still have a choice; but the aim of this letter is that students become aware of trivial objections such as mine before expressing their opinion on the petition as it now stands. Thomas C. Seoh...
...middle, his enemies to the left, his friends to the right. "On the right, all the activists," Courbet explained in a letter to a friendly critic, "that is to say, the friends, the workers, the lovers of the world of art. On the left, the other world of trivial existence, the people, misery, poverty and wealth, the exploited and the exploiters, the people who feed off death." Some of the figures, particularly those on the right, have long been identified - Baudelaire, Proudhon, the critic Champfleury. Professor Toussaint, however, gives a complicated new reading to the painting by suggesting that...
...From the trivial racket of trivial crews and from...