Word: trivialization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that the college experience does ?? afford the individual a means of finding and developing his true self. The pursuit of knowledge can be for a certain individual a search for the truth of human experience as it pertains to himself. The acquisition of knowledge, no matter how trivial or "??-functional" it may appear, influences in varied and often subtle ways the development of the human personality...
...Lionel Tiger should have put more emphasis on the study of psychology before he took the Ph.D. That might have prevented his dismissing as trivial every moving force in the expanding human makeup outside of genetic predetermination and breeding practices. It's possible he might have stumbled upon some indication of the human being's capacity to mimic and incorporate, often termed "learned behavior." Evidence pointing to the importance of what is learned after we are dropped, chromosomes and all, on this earth represents too great a body of truth just to be swept under...
...very deepest structure of all without realizing that she is. She's talking about the breeding system: any animal's central problem is how to reproduce, to survive enough to reproduce. Unless you're talking about that, you're talking about something that's trivial...
Professional Jealousy. Somewhere along the way, Frost's fury at rejections fanned out into a general, capricious malice and crass opportunism. Much of the book is devoted to an appalling accumulation of trivial plotting and backbiting. It was a shrewd Yankee who first told Frost that good fences make good neighbors, because contracts in particular meant little to him. A publisher once got the poet's approval before signing up an early biographer. Frost gave it, but finding another writer even more idolatrous, he awarded him the exclusive rights-leaving the publisher with two authors for one book...
...noted that it will be submitted for approval to Spain's legislative body, the Cortes. He found it ironic that on this topic "there is more open discussion'' in the restrictive Franco regime than in the U.S. Fulbright wondered why the Administration routinely handles such trivial matters as a cooperative effort with Mexico to help recover and return "stolen archaeological, historical and cultural properties" by Senate-ratified treaty, but makes a consequential deal with Franco by executive stipulation. Fulbright threatened to seek a congressional ban on the use of U.S. military funds in Spain unless they...