Word: trivial
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Marriott for trysts. The political silly season is upon us--a patch of especially funky Washington weather that is spreading nationwide and reminding Americans why they hate politics. Every election year has one of these strange spells, which always combine high dudgeon and low farce: politicians trading blows over trivial issues while important concerns get reduced to the level of cartoon. What makes this season stand out, however, is the almost complete lack of intellectual honesty being displayed by both sides. But if you peer through the smoke, you can tell a lot about the candidates and their parties...
...Readers who wrote us about the suicide of Mike Boorda, U.S. Chief of Naval Operations [NATION, May 27], expressed varying views. Rand Knox of San Rafael, California, remembered the recent forced resignations of other high-ranking military officials and suggested Boorda had overreacted. Wrote Knox: "The military makes the trivial important and the important trivial." Retired Army Sergeant Major David L. Pompili of Colorado Springs, Colorado, was saddened by the suicide but pointed out, "If Boorda's citation did not award the V device [for valor in combat experience], he was not authorized to wear it. Careers are ruined...
This may seem a trivial objection on my part compared, say, with objections that are based on the belief that recognizing gay marriage would destroy civilization as we know it, but we all deal with these issues on our own level...
PENTATHLON: A NOT-SO-TRIVIAL PURSUIT...
...Scalia] talked about how he spent hours on trivial bankruptcy cases, perfecting his prose," Pasquale says. "To a frightening extent, I am a perfectionist...