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...celebrations of Christian holidays...is as offensive to Jews as is racism to Black"? Racism includes violence against Blacks by mobs and the police, harassment in housing, discrimination in promotion and hiring and a million other things beside which "Harvard's celebration of Christian holiday" is less than trivial...
...founders, Briton Hadden and Henry Luce, set for the magazine in its prospectus in 1922: to keep busy people informed. Today readers like you are busier than ever and blanketed by sound bites and news fragments as never before. TIME's news summary sorts the important from the trivial, the timeless from the fleeting...
...Profile helps assemble demographic data on the volunteers who call in. Perot refuses to disclose what he is spending on this let-your-fingers-do-the-walking grass-roots operation. But Paul Weichselbaum, MCI's Texas general manager, says it's "a highly unusual system" whose "cost is not trivial...
Clinton's admirers put much blame for Clinton's woes on print and TV journalists who, in their view, have been harping on largely trivial questions of character while ignoring the policy issues that are Clinton's strength. Result: the voters who have heard about Gennifer Flowers vastly outnumber those who have any idea that Clinton has put forth a highly detailed program on taxes and the economy, let alone those who have any notion of what his program contains. There is some truth to this, but given public attitudes, it is largely inevitable. Political scientist James David Barber...
...these references would seem rather a heavy load for small clay objects to carry, but one of the virtues of Price's work is that it never seems pompous and only rarely trivial. Some of the time, it mocks itself. Certain Prices look like exquisitely glazed versions of stuff you would want to scrape off your boot. And what about Wart Cup, 1968, for a title? One can't claim too much for his cups, which is a relief in a culture that tends to claim far too much for its paintings, but the whole show in Minneapolis is infused...