Word: trivialities
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...growth of unions or their functions as bargaining agents. Unionists charge that the law has had other bad effects. Jerry Holleman, head of the Texas A.F.L.-C.I.O., says the law has weakened union discipline, causing more wildcat strikes, and that the union must take many more grievance cases, often trivial ones, to arbitration lest the union members withdraw from the local on grounds that they are not being ably represented...
This year's concert was exemplary on all counts. The light pieces, such as the folk-song arrangements, were not trivial. The modern works showed effective vocal writing, especially Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight by Fenno Heath, conductor of the Yale Glee Club. The selections from Mozart's Zauberflote provided music which was almost so profound as to be out of place. And there were, of course, the football songs, about which any commentary would be superfluous, if not sacrilegious...
...broadcasting "trivial" affairs in a simple manner "so that Southern people can understand," Mrs. Alford concluded, much can be done to "approach the problems that face the South...
...direct mysticism of their spiritual vision, in their equally mystical approach to nature, in the intuitive spontaneity of their form. Their religion and their form are one. They make aesthetic theory superfluous, and their natural intimacy with the forces of life make our fiddling with eroticism in art trivial. In short, the works leave one with the question, What might sophistication be if this is primitive...
Since the publication of General Education in a Free Society in the early post-war years, the process of educating Harvard undergraduates has moved, sometimes unsteadily, towards the utopian never-land where independent study is matched in excellence only by a scholarly and articulate expression of ideas, great and trivial...