Word: trivialities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Scott is so good an actor that he can almost get away with this, but his approach seems to have infected a great part of the cast, and they cannot. Earle Edgerton and Lucienne Schupf, playing Cornwall and Regan, delivered even the most trivial lines with appalling vehemence. John Baker's Edgar suffered from the same virus--although he was excellent in the Poor Tom scenes--while Gerald Medearis' performance of Edmund was in the best tradition of Errol Flynn...
...teachers in Washington, B.C., said it is futile to accelerate science education without raising the level of education in general, and that first there must be an end to "the mucker pose that it's smart to be anti-intellectual." He called for "a weeding out of the trivial, narrowly vocational subjects...
...Really Something." Up by about 7:30 each morning, Ike showered, shaved, ate a small steak for breakfast, then pulled a chair up to a coffee table near a fieldstone fireplace to work for an hour or so with Press Secretary James Hagerty. Not all the work was trivial, but neither was it lengthy or taxing, e.g., the President's hand was evident in the latest "summit conference" letter to Russia; he gave final approval to the strong foreign-trade message issued last week, made changes in a foreign-aid speech to be delivered this week. A few times...
...also had musical recollections. One heard a piano and saw the man playing it. A boy reported seeing men seated in chairs and hearing them sing. These were no hallucinations, but always the reproductions of actual experiences. Aside from music, patients have recalled a wide variety of incidents, usually trivial, often from childhood, and connected with the family or neighbors...
Back to Buying. Knopf admits that the grievous inadequacy of authors, booksellers and critics does not excuse publishers for "producing the large volume of trivial, unimportant, inferior and downright unworthy stuff we do." He roasts his colleagues for handing out contracts to hopefuls who have never written novels and, worse still, for printing the results. Standards are so low, he complains, that no one "can say to any author, 'Your book is so bad that it can't be published,' because the author is just as likely as not to go down the street and sell...