Word: trivialities
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Pike & Watusi. The ultimate amusement really comes with the fair's endless cosmopolitan touches, both great and trivial...
...wrote: "First I invited ten reporters from the advertising trade press to luncheon. I told them of my insane ambition to build a major agency from scratch. From that point on, they gave me priceless tips on new business and printed every release I sent them, however trivial, bless them...
...Wallace Woodworth, James Edward Ditson Professor of Music, has managed to include some sound suggestions for raising the status of music in America in an otherwise rather trivial survey of various aspects of the American musical world...
Back and forth the messages crackled, after U.S. coastguardmen boarded Lambda 8 and three other Cuban fishing boats lying H miles off the Dry Tortugas Islands, west of Key West. The boats were clearly violating the U.S. three-mile territorial limit. Ordinarily, it would be a trivial affair, worth merely a warning before sending the fishermen on their way. But it ballooned rapidly into a crisis...
Also less pretentious, less purple, and more palpable than the Advocate median is "Set Theory," by Donald Bloch, a mature and controlled observation of a son returned from school to the familiar, petty bitchinesses of his parents. Bloch infuses the trivial "stuff of life" that makes up his story with an unusual intensity. Yet he does not languish turgidly over details, a favorite indulgence of Porter and Mary Seager, forcing the reader to rush his eyes downward, hungry for a little less talk and more action...