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What Author Green does with these spare and seemingly trivial bits & pieces is beyond the reach of most novelists. He has said that novels "should be concerned with the everyday mishaps of ordinary life," and in Concluding Green gives such mishaps an atmosphere of both urgency and mystery...
...question of a growth of class distinction between bed-owner and bed-maker is only a trivial one; it would be important to the small minority that believes working for an education to be an evil. No castes have been noticed at M.I.T...
...vigil of the Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, and that the service would contain the words from the Martyrology of Usuard†: "As yet the Church has given no decision upon the bodily Assumption of the Blessed Virgin, exercising a prudent reserve as to trivial, or apocryphal legends." St. Anthony, who steadfastly believed that Mary's body had indeed been taken into Heaven after her death, hated to hear these words...
...play has its lively moments-bits of stage business, cracks about show business, short vaudeville turns, Murvyn Vye's playing of a slimy actor's agent. But the whole thing seems curiously aimless and trivial, not least because it smacks of the very shoddiness it presumably set out to expose...
...Some] politicians in Washington seem to think that the Korean campaign will be a trivial one, in which a few of our forces will get some combat experience for a month or two, and it will then be polished...