Word: trivialities
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...wore spotless gray kid gloves and sat on an empty beer crate as his glider took him into battle. Nor does Ryan fail to mention the name of the beer (Worthington)-just as he identifies the typewriter (Olivetti) being tapped by a then U.P. correspondent named Walter Cronkite. Random, trivial, even compulsive, Ryan's facts eventually justify themselves as a fragmented tableau of that most fragmented experience: war. Here are just a few of the details of just one air drop, seen like a close-up of a Flemish tapestry: A paratrooper lands on a partridge and carries...
...times, Roosevelt's mind wandered, his voice was low, his questions trivial. Later Stalin said: "If I had known how tired that man is, I would have agreed to meet along the Mediterranean...
...uninsistent thump. Suddenly, there is no "news." Or, to put the matter another way, all the news that fits is in print. Local gripes now receive fullblown front-page treatment. Crime makes a comeback. Sports stories normally relegated to back pages jump startlingly forward. The merely eyecatching, the determinedly trivial and the yawning of a new era are now featured boldly. Says the Boston Globe's assistant managing editor, Tim Leland: "Stories that would have struggled to make it into the paper before are now on the front page no less...
Advisors have tried to match similar musical tastes when possible. This might sound like a trivial point now, but just wait til your roommate puts on her favorite Shirley Temple's Greatest Hits album. Uncoordinated tastes can be very trying...
...Steiner comes to acknowledge, the event that Fischer called "this little thing between me and Spassky" was not so minor after all. "To an extraordinary number of human beings," he concludes, "the events of that summer communicated a rare sense of intensity... for several months, a totally esoteric, essentially trivial endeavor, associated with pimply, myopic youths and vaguely comical old men on park benches, held the world enthralled...