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There is really no red-hot need for another production of Oscar Wilde's "trivial comedy for serious people," especially one by an American company not specifically equipped to deal with it. The performance on records with John Gielgud and the movie with Michael Redgrave are both extant, and each would be definitive if the other did not exist. If anybody has managed to attain to the age of reason without having seen or heard or read Earnest, a visit to the local performance would not be a bad idea, simply because Wilde's masterpiece is too good to miss...
...forget that he has nothing to say. So, too, when you see a slickly-staged job of Shadow of a Gunman, you wonder whether Sean O'Casey invokes the world's enduring sentimentality for the Irish to obscure the fact that he dwells on an incident that seems trivial, an incident that is sadly pale when set beside the heroic achievements in human terror of which people have proven themselves so capable...
...encourage European disarmament, relax restrictions on scientific work, prohibit arms shipments to the Middle East, establish greater cultural exchange with Russia, provide a trained civil service, and reestablish civilian control over the military. However, the more important of Mills' recommendations are made less meaningful by his inclusion of seemingly trivial suggestions such as the foundation of a fleet of airlines for intellectuals...
...what they produce, commune members get wages fixed by a ruling committee of party activists. At Sputnik Commune, 260 mess halls have been set up where members are fed free rice. These communal kitchens, plus communal nurseries and "mending brigades," relieve the wives of members from "dull and trivial housework," transform women, too, into all-purpose laborers. (The sole concession made to femininity: pregnant women get a month off work with half pay.) Even the old folks, for whom the commune has established "Happy Homes," are kept busy with scheduled chores, such as feeding the chickens. And in at least...
...differentiation similar to the one which now exists in the House systyem. If the latter alternative is adopted, the problem immediately arises, how is such a differentiation to be made in a House which has no striking factors to set one room apart from another, except for the rather trivial ones such as view and proximity to the elevators that will eliminate the stair-climbing inconvenience which is a strong factor in present ratesetting...