Word: trivialities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There has not been in the entire history of the United States an example of mismanagement and lack of vision so colossal and far-reaching in its consequences as our turning of the radio channels almost exclusively into commercial hands." Since, he said, both radio and cinema portray "the trivial, the sensual, the jazzy . . . we are in vastly greater danger as a people from New Yorkism than from Communism...
What remains of Fifty Million Frenchmen is trivial comedy about a young American in Paris who wins a bet that he can earn enough money to get along and make friends with a pretty girl...
Director Lewis Milestone makes The Front Page triumph magnificently over a few trivial defects...
...could hold a plane on a fairly even course, nearly as easily as holding an automobile to a high way. But to land safely requires judgment and skill born of careful training and long practice. A miscalculation, a false move-and only fate decides whether the mishap shall be trivial or tragic...
...telling the story of his life, Professor Palmer has sketched with brevity numerous circumstances, often trivial in size, which have had a bearing on his career. The absence of generalizations and the restraint in the description of personal events combine in such a manner as to remove both false humility and wearing trivia, qualities often consequent in accounts of this type. Naturally, his tracing of the rise of the department of Philosophy at Harvard is the most interesting topic handled. The change of system from one consisting of a minister who made occasional ventures into speculative ethics and morals, even...