Word: trivialization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Symphony No. 34 in C. Major, K 388, went well. It is in three movements, not a major work by any means, but an interesting idea. This work was accompanied by some silly program notes apologizing for it because, the writer says, compared to Beethoven "Mozart emerges as a trivial blank," when judged emotionally. I suppose program note writers have to make a living, just like everyone else...
...Pride" [July 13] makes a brief and trivial point. You can bet, by damn, that if all homosexuals were black, or members of some other over-sponsored minority, doubtless some august institution like the late Warren Court would long ago have clamped a doubly protective constitutional shield around us. Individual dignity, it seems, comes in only a few colors these days, none of which is lavender...
Some opponents say they would accept many of the Administration's proposals if they were redrawn in such a way that they could not be turned against those whose offenses are trivial-or merely unpopular. Others go further. In a democracy, they say, mobsters have rights too. The most trenchant criticism against both bills is that they tinker with the tools of law enforcement instead of attacking more basic problems: crime-breeding courts and prisons, social inequities and public complacency about vice and corruption...
...guidelines. The bureaucratic morass created in various local agencies, a general mismanagement of funds by the executives of the OEO, a lack of sensitivity of the community organizers to the principles of real organization-all of these factors which merely debilitated the CAP before the 1967 directive seemed trivial in comparison to the change of policy which took away any power the poor might have had in the CAP; the power to initiate and implement projects beneficial to the community...
...more remarkable because May, now a vigorous 61, espouses a theory that is unpopular in his professional field and almost unknown beyond it. He is an existential therapist. This practice, which claims only a few hundred adherents in the U.S., is dismissed in some quarters as either trivial or derivative. For ordinary travelers, the theory makes heavy going indeed. Love and Will demands of even the most persistent reader the same emotional and intellectual commitment that the author made three decades...