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...actions advocated and given most enthusiastic and prominent coverage in the Crimson have been "confrontations" with the atmosphere of a class picnic. Local radicals have choreographed a series of civil disobedience actions which pose only a trivial threat to illegitimate authority. Traffic was rerouted briefly for the sit-down in Post Office Square; the Cambridge Draft Board and the Gulf offices were open for busienss as usual shortly after the demonntrators left. Surely by no stretch of the imagination could such actions be considered "massive public disorder" which threatens the ability of Nixon, Kissinger and the President of Gulf...
...Mendelsohn commented Wednesday, "it makes quite a bit of difference what specific exceptions" are worked out to the general criteria. "Speaking in an airy, general manner, these specifies might seem trivial, but they're the nuts and bolts of the matter," he said...
...subversive books?" You deny it and keep on denying, hoping that they haven't gotten anything else on you, anything that will make them keep you there indefinitely. A thought passes through your mind: "my family won't even find out where I am." But they stick to a trivial incident. They give you a statement to sign, confirming that you are a supporter of the government. You decline, on the grounds that you believe in democracy. The man approaches you, slaps you twice in the face and hits you in the stomach. It hurts and you get very angry...
...most original of the three albums is Loudon Wainwright's Album II. His experiments in almost shrieking emotional honesty do not always succeed completely, but the openness, eloquence, and powerful directness of his desperate loneliness make James Taylor's moanings seem sadly trivial. Several times, Wainwright's attempts to reduce emotions to the briefest, most forceful, and most blatant lyrical statements sound dangerously close to the slogans on insipid posters in the Coop. When his attempts bear fruit, they are absolutely searing...
...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...