Word: trivial
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vote against forming a union at Michigan State University, may be only temporary. Says M.S.U. Economist Walter Adams, who is also national president of the American Association of University Professors: "Two bad years in the legislature and some disliked administrative action-no matter how trivial-will eventually put over unionization...
...joke might not. Needless to say. The Creation of the World and Other Business abounds with puns on the colloquial uses of "God," "the devil." "heaven," and "hell," as well as references to Adam and Eve's early sex life. The best of the humor is either trivial ("Pull up that leaf!" God admonishes Eve as he prepares to curse her) or virtually slapstick...
...book that is certain to enrage his colleagues. In Social Sciences as Sorcery (Andre Deutsch; London; ?2.95), he accuses the world's rapidly increasing population of social scientists of writing more and more about less and less. Their work, he says, is boring, misleading, pseudoscientific and trivial, and amounts to little more than "ponderous restatements of the obvious" masked by a "smoke screen of jargon." In fact, Andreski suggests, little has been added to man's knowledge about himself since the death in 1903 of the English social philosopher Herbert Spencer...
...believes that experimental psychologists like Harvard's B.F. Skinner are seriously misinterpreting human nature: "When the psychologists refuse to study anything but the most mechanical forms of behaviour-often so mechanical that even rats have no chance to show their higher faculties-and then present their most trivial findings as the true picture of the human mind, they prompt people to regard themselves as automata, devoid of responsibility or worth, which can hardly remain without effect upon the tenor of social life." Freud, Adler and Jung? Although psychoanalysts "offer many fundamental insights into real-life situations" and cannot...
...president lacked authority to censor or control the editorial content of a campus newspaper. Apparently O'Connell feels that a change is in order. The arrogance of his contention in challenging the state attorney general and trying to circumvent basic tenets of an unfettered press-is amplified by the trivial nature of the issue from which the controversy first arose...