Word: trivialities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan, Critic George Jean Nathan, 70, an amateur baseball fan, told the New York Times that there were some things still beneath his notice: "I take no interest in politics . . . It is the diversion of trivial men, and when they succeed at it, they become important in the eyes of more trivial...
...your report of last night's meeting on the Struik case there is an error which, though apparently trivial, actually completely destroys the meaning of my remarks. You state (as did Mr. Donlon) that Struik was indicted for conspiring to overthrow the government by force. Actually (as I pointed out by reading the indictment) the charge is conspiring to advocate overthrowing the government. From the point of view of freedom of speech the distinction is absolutely essential. The Civil Liberties Union does not recognize any right to overthrow the government by force, or to conspire to do so. It does...
McCarthy ordered Cambridge police to stop motorists for the most trivial traffic violations. His order read, "Request them to cooperate, but don't book them unless the offense is serious...
...world. Of course the public reads of Harvard's academic and scholarly achievement, but the gullible average reader is more apt to remember the little pranks and foolish escapades of several students. It is not only this face-slapping record. It is an accumulation of all the trivial stunts of students through the years that can hurt a college's reputation. That includes the water-bomb incidents, the disengaged trolley wires, goldfish swallowing, etc. Things like that give the public the impression that colleges are nothing but kindergartens in which well-to-do young men idle away their time...
...Trivial as all these restrictions may be, their cumulative force has had a depressing effect on the New Haven community of scholars. Yale men just do not like being treated like adolescent inmates of an expensive, well-run prep school, no matter how good its faculty may be. They have had freedom and they like the taste...