Word: trivial
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sculpture, which is still much underrated) rarely seemed as impressive as his early collages or his dreamlike images of the '20s and '30s, it still bore testimony to one of the most durable and fertile talents of our entire culture, a great enemy of the trivial and the bogus and the solemn...
...Robinson Rojas Sanford makes clear in The Murder of Allende, the weakness of Allende's political power was trivial compared to the threat of military rebellion. The Chilean armed forces, whose function until then had been to deter an unlikely Peruvian invasion and to suppress internal dissent, clearly held veto power over the Popular Unity government. But Allende, though imprisoned by these restrictions, refused to acknowledge them, speaking as though socialism had taken hold in Chile. His temerity and the myth of an apolitical armed forces made the coup a great surprise to those who had believed...
...time is the University Food Services. Today, in celebration of an ethnic holiday of a religious source, students were served "St. Patrick's Cake" during lunch. On Monday night, however, on a Jewish religious holiday, Purim, no effort was made to celebrate that festival with Hamentashen. Although an admittedly trivial case, this incident underscores those of this year's Yom Kippur registration and Christmas Dinner. What makes it especially insulting is the maintenance of a non-sectarian guise. Harvard should either recognize and admit its unequal treatment of religions or it should eliminate every semblance of inequality. Ruben George Perlmutter...
...response is unique to each individual. One person can live through years of bombing with no effect. In another case, something as trivial as the ringing of a bell provoked a fatal attack in a healthy young woman," Lown said...
...hand, the autonomy and privileged status of cirticism depends on the contention that literature provides crucial insights for moral and political life. But on the other hand, the formalistic method to which this autonomy gave rise reduces literature to an elaborate arrangement of patterns and designs, to a trivial if complex amusement, which is devoid of significance because it lacks any connection with human values. Thus American literary criticism has had little to offer those genuinely concerned with understanding the self and society, and consequently has been shut out of serious intellectual discourse...