Word: trivial
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact that Rockefeller had sharply altered his account of the affair. When first questioned by reporters, he denied that he had initiated the book and said that Laurance had financed it. But in his testimony last week, he took full responsibility himself; the book was such a trivial item in the campaign, he said, that he had simply forgotten that he had authorized it. "My statement was totally unfair to my brother, who is one of the nicest people in the world...
...good news about the HRO this year is the consistent integrity of its programming. Last year's management tried to lure audiences with several trivial pieces--such as Dukas's "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" of Walt Disney fame--which it mistook for crowd pleasers. The new management has dispensed with such condescension and every work which has been scheduled so far is worth hearing. Like last year, the HRO is performing well. The difficulties which arose in the last concert, presumably from musical overcommitment, should be rectified in the upcoming programs, which seem to be of a more manageable scope...
...tome on the U.S. jury system; of an apparent heart attack; at home in Chicago. An ardent civil libertarian, Kalven frequently argued First Amendment cases, including Entertainer Lenny Bruce's 1963 obscenity appeal to the Illinois Supreme Court; contemptuous of censorship, he regarded obscenity laws as "foolish and trivial." A projected major work on legal theories underlying freedom of speech was half completed when he was stricken...
...Even so trivial a matter as the way in which lenders to the exhibit wished to be acknowledged begins to take on a symbolic importance after one has walked through the show three or four times. Thirty-one of the 79 contributors wished to remain anonymous. Another 19 listed themselves as Mr. and Mrs. or Mrs. and used the husband's name with the woman's maiden name underneath in parentheses, as if the two names belonged to different people. This is admittedly a small point and doubtless caution overcame pride for many of the collectors but nevertheless...
Finally, a trivial point, but one which characterizes the article: contrary to the reporter's assertion, Chavez is indeed a migrant worker, the son of farm workers...