Word: triviality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many delegates to the A.A.U.P. had similar sentiments. Other academics challenged the A.I.A. monitors to speak up in class and freely debate their professors instead of tiptoeing off with reports, which thus far seem few and trivial. Csorba acknowledges that his operatives have turned up only six "active" cases so far. One example: Mark Reader, an Arizona State political science professor who is accused of taking too strong a stance against nuclear war in his lectures...
...probably the first movie ever to be based on a board game. It is certainly the first one to go into the theaters with three different endings. Good news for the makers of some future edition of Trivial Pursuit. The bad news for everyone else is that the colorfully named characters from Clue --Colonel Mustard, Miss Scarlet, Mrs. Peacock et al.--remain flat enough to be stored in a box, and that all three endings are unpersuasive. (If choose you must, opt for Ending C.) Writer-Director Jonathan Lynn apparently felt so obliged to maintain the game's conventions...
...telling commentary on the debates that past match-ups have hinged on the trivial, the superficial, or the spectacular if momentary mental breakdown. And because of all the attention focused on the Great Debates, these factors are magnified beyond any reasonable proportion...
This is not a trivial matter. Each packet was mailed through the U.S. Postal Service at a cost of $1.07. Multiplying this by the approximately 6400 undergraduates at Harvard reveals that over $6800 was spent on distribution alone. (This sum does not take into account the graduate students who received the mailing.) Each packet contained over 60 pages of printed material. Even at an extremely conservative estimate of $0.32 per packet (one half cent per page) for printing costs, this adds up to a total of over $2000. Even if every undergraduate wished to view these reports (which seems highly...
...offbeat people. Anyone who can remember one tenth of the details will be a walking encyclopedia of things Texan from the number of types of cactus in Big Ben National Park to the unlikely origin of "The Yellow Rose of Texas." Texas isn't a bad combination of Trivial Pursuit and Dallas, but it isn't a good way to get to know Texas either...