Word: trivial
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...demand for sensitivity is an unwarranted nuisance; it is the battle cry of the hyper-sensitive. The four-decade march towards a reconsideration of our attitudes towards racism and sexism has suddenly stalled. There is a reluctance, even a resistance towards those who want to subject private attitudes, and trivial public expression to the standards of civil rights and feminism...
Quayle found especially valuable the tutoring of Democrat Mondale. Among other things, Mondale urged Quayle to avoid getting bogged down as head of dozens of presidential task forces and commissions. In Mondale's view, such assignments almost inevitably turn into trivial pursuits. It is no accident that most of Quayle's tutors were right of center. His instincts are deeply conservative, and though he insists he will not act as a "spear carrier" for the right, one conservative activist views him as a potential provider of "political intelligence" about what is going on in the Administration. Bush aides, however...
...charges are not trivial, and neither is the challenge. At issue is the freedom of a filmmaker -- or any artist -- to twist the facts as they are recalled, to shape the truth as it is perceived. May a movie libel the historical past? And has Mississippi Burning done so? Artistic liberty vs. social responsibility: the stakes are high. The memories are indelible. The battle lines are drawn...
Scholars outside the University say that Harvard acted too hastily by accepting the resignation of Dr. Shervert H. Frazier, 67, on November 23. They say the school ignored Frazier's accomplishments by dismissing him over what one professor called a "trivial" matter...
...that article, Frazier cited a sourcecorrectly, but failed to bracket an extractionfrom the text in quotation marks. While Scatenacalled this "clearly wrong," Ramona said that thiserror was "some-what trivial...