Word: trivial
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...original Harvard men these differences were trivial. They were all wealthy, they all wore those funny looking old outfits that made everyone appear unsightly, and they all drank fine ale at the neighborhood "ye olde shoppe" (for indeed these were carefree days and no one cared much then for spelling...
...America in the '80s that means rescinding the sexual revolution of the past quarter-century. Five years ago, concern about herpes caused a similar scare, one that seems trivial by comparison. Now "safe sex" are the watchwords. The mechanics of copulation have become public to a degree unthinkable only a year ago, with detailed discussions in the press and on television of bodily secretions and sexual protection like condoms...
...sentimentalized; they stand to the side while the white soldiers grab all the big emotions. And the Vietnamese are either pathetic victims or the invisible, inhuman enemy. In the scheme of Platoon (and not just Platoon) they do not matter. The nearly 1 million Vietnamese casualties are deemed trivial compared with America's loss of innocence, of allies, of geopolitical face. And the tragedy of Viet Nam is seen as this: not that they died, but that we debased ourselves by killing them...
...Prevention and Rehabilitation of Offenders, has studied the comrades. She concluded that the poverty and hopelessness of life in the townships make them impulsive and largely incapable of compromise. The primary object of their wrath is anyone suspected of collaborating with the government. The victim's "crime" can be trivial or wholly nonexistent. Even payment of rent for government-owned housing can be a capital offense. Some recent victims...
...safety and good health. Though it would be comforting to explain the departure of the 50 Soviets by suggesting that their Soviet upbringing didn't foster the lust for freedom possessed by native-born Americans, the truth is more troubling. For vast numbers of people the government is a trivial, background feature in the daily struggle to attain happiness and security...