Word: trivialization
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...they will tell us. Thank you, we will say. You are stupid, they will tell us. Thank you, we will say. Everything you hold dear is worthless, everything you think important is trivial, everything you remember is forgotten, they will tell us. Shut up, shut up, shut up, we will say. But deep in our hearts we will know they are right...
...didn't help that the majority anti-abortion crowd (apparently brought in from all over the state) applauded loudly after each statement made by their two speakers, no matter how trivial. Neither did the armed guards and police barricades create a comfortable atmosphere for compromise. But mostly, it was the fierce denial of the motivations and causes of anti-abortion extremists that fed the distrust and anger on both sides...
...extracurricular of choice). The only advice I'll echo here is the importance of picking a topic you like and will continue to like for 12 months--there is a certain reassurance in waking up in the middle of the night and caring about your topic, however arcane or trivial it might seem to the outside world...
...those issues may look a little trivial compared to Jerusalem - a city cohabited uneasily by the three faiths that consider it holy, and claimed as a capital by two nations who've yet to conclude a final peace agreement to end a half century of war. While the Palestinians are chagrined that the pontiff's hosts in the Holy City will be the Israelis, Israel is unhappy that he'll meet with the Palestinian Authority-appointed Grand Mufti on the Temple Mount, a site on which the third-holiest site in Islam - the Al Aqsa mosque and the Dome...
This petition was hardly the disgruntled mutterings of a few dissatisfied students, but a remarkable demonstration of shared sentiment. The organizers were able to get the signatures of over half of the Class of 2003 in only two days. Nor is the issue a trivial one. Every one of the first-years who signed that petition will be directly affected by the rules on blocking group size, and for most the process of choosing a group is a difficult and unpleasant period. It is natural and appropriate that first-years should try to make their concerns known to the administration...