Word: trivial
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time alone with women other than his wife? Europeans watch the periodic spasms of American moralism with an air of horrified superiority. America, they conclude, is not a land inhabited by grownups. In the European mind, American sex and power are adolescent urges. American politics can seem dangerous and trivial...
These are not trivial matters and those involved are predictably reluctant to talk. If, as Bok has stated, investigations are warranted, then the investigations warrant the attention of the University's highest echelons. If they are to get anywhere, the investigations must take place under official auspices. And they should begin now, before the facts of the cases become more remote...
...Stellenbosch is in turmoil. Not only are the students increasingly disaffected (see box), but 27 senior academics recently resigned in protest from the National Party and issued a manifesto demanding abolition of all "residuals of apartheid." When the Cape Town Nationalist newspaper Die Burger dismissed the gesture as "trivial" because there were only 27 protesters in a faculty of more than 700, an additional 301 promptly signed the manifesto and promised that more would soon add their signatures...
...hyperkinetic comedy with a budget. But it still betrays a rabid obsession with movies, from its constant toying with technical effects to the incessant Gremlins--style stream of references to others movies. Some are obvious, while others are maddeningly oblique and occasionally the film degenerates into a mass Trivial Pursuit game. It's us against the Coens. They...
Squabbling by posturing and repeating stale lines does not add much to any discussions of politics or values. To be meaningful, free speech should not be trivial. The latest round in the squabble over South Africa is simply petty...