Word: trivialization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...definition. Undoubtedly injury will be concentrated among the workers handling radioactive materials--in the mines, in transport, and in the plants. But unless the workers are themselves isolated from members of the opposite sex, they will soon pass on their damaged genes to the general population--not a trivial factor, since the industry uses large numbers of people, sometimes called sponges, who are not regular employees, to absorb in a few minutes or hours the legal quota of radiation for three months. The next day, they are tossed back into the "population...
...perfunctory speech for "the University community." Yet 700 students show up to hear it. It's The Harvard Experience, students playing their role, with Brown going through the motions. But when Brown left and people filed out, no one was talking about SALT II; the disruption, though trivial, dominated conversation. And it disturbed Allison, who remembered when the students who sat quietly last Monday would have been shouting along with the two interlopers, when the charade fell apart just alittle...
...prized and fought for, at an institution whose members are chosen for and take pride in their uniqueness, how could such a grossly selfish infringement of others' rights be seriously considered? Is our own liberty so inviolate that we cannot accomodate in any way, no matter how trivial, to allow for the liberties of others? Can we be so engrossed in the perusal of our own thing that we not only do neglect, but feel it is our right to neglect, the things of others...
...such as retirement and hospitalization. "That statement helped people know Harvard does care, even though it's a big place. We got literally hundreds of responses, and all but one were favorable. One woman wrote in to say she thought we should not be wasting money on something so trivial," Cantor says...
...inane lecture, I realized, with increasing dismay and anger, that this was it. Harvard: a professor mumbling about arcane and vapid subjects, in love with the sound of his own voice, while I sat resentfully, one of hundreds. In sections, wan-looking graduate students droned on and on about trivial points in lectures while pathetically overeager students fell over each other to answer stupid questions. My knowledgeable proctor had screwed up again--he hadn't warned me that huge survey courses are probably the least challenging and most poorly taught classes at Harvard. I felt academically betrayed...