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...Mahler movement was the supreme irony of the evening. Rendered almost trivial by the surgery which removed it from the symphony, the Adagio was given a sympathetic performance despite the inevitable failure of the undermanned strings to produce the necessary breadth of sound...
...what do we hear from blacks at Harvard? Black professors, counselors, etc., "Black" courses, proportional enrollment. The complaints of these comparatively overprivileged Americans must sound self-centered and trivial to sharecroppers and ghetto welfare recipients. Do they care who holds the Negro chair at Harvard? Would a black professor want to be invited to Harvard because of his coloring rather than his ability in teaching and research? I think I would be insulted if I were...
...most foreign governments profoundly. In 17 of the past 18 years, the U.ST has spent, lent or given away more money than it has taken in from abroad. Compared with the size of the U.S. economy (larger than all of Europe's), that balance of payments deficit seems trivial; it has averaged a mere 0.004% of the gross national product. But the dollars thus placed in foreign hands now total $34 billion, while the U.S. stock of gold has dwindled from a postwar peak of $24.6 billion to $10.4 billion last week, the thinnest gold line since...
...credit is necessary to permit ROTC to carry out its recruiting function is well taken, this admission also states that your proposal for discrediting the program would serve little purpose other than soothing your sense of righteous indignation. As I will show, given this admission, your other arguments are trivial...
GORE'S soft smile hides an essential hardness. Sometimes he argues a trivial point stubbornly. A sensitive question can bring an abrupt dismissal--he refuses to speculate on his political standing in Tennessee or whether he might endorse Robert Kennedy. But it would probably be difficult for Gore to challenge his state party's allegiance to the President. Southern Governors control their parties, and Buford Ellington of Tennessee has close personal and political ties to Lyndon Johnson...