Word: trivial
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Eric Berne's Games People Play. Berne's games, however, are part of a neurotic search for emotional involvement, while Goffman's rituals represent only a normal attempt to save face. Because of this concentration on image making, some of Goffman's critics find him trivial and limited. "People just do not go around with their attention constantly focused on how they are being regarded," objects Berkeley Sociologist Herbert Blumer. All the same, Blumer considers Goffman "an innovative scholar" who "can take human interplay which appears humdrum and show it to be intricate, dynamic and dramatic...
...jail, the harassment has continued. Mail, reading matter, and visitors have been arbitrarily denied him. His attorney. William Allison, charges that the excuses have ranged from the trivial to absurd. He was told by prison authorities (who were unavailable for further comment) that Collins had too many books which were becoming a burden to the prison. All this led to a federal suit to stop this interference...
...male chauvinist pig). She has also learned to assert herself, insist on certain rights-mostly around the house, true, but that's where, after all, she spends most of her time. She asks-does not demand-that her children, her husband pitch in, share some of the trivial drudgery: she swears that gone are the days when, the country weekend over, the rest of the family sat out in the car waiting for her to pack up the last carryall and check the last stove burner, giving her an occasional impatient blast on the horn...
...Crimson of February 26, 1972, you quote Professor Louis L. Jaffe as saying that "the publication policy of the Press has been law, and a number of trivial books have been published that have contributed little to scholarly research...
...level guide on a Gray Lines tour of Chinatown. Later, when the meal and the speeches were over, the camera with equal fidelity observed the toasts and watched the Chief Executive clink glasses with what seemed like the entire Peking hierarchy. Yet the mixture of high and low, trivial and important, seemed right, and gave the whole affair that touch of verisimilitude that makes the fantastic real...