Word: trivializations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...questions ranged from the academic to the trivial, Katine said...
...Harvard had one thing going for it this week which made all of these setbacks trivial: Yale lost to Columbia...
...though seemingly trivial, the move does have tremendous symbolic importance. University Hall--the home of Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles, Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 and Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III--is a decision-making hub, a center of power on campus second only to Massachusetts Hall. The basement of Thayer Hall, by contrast, while only a few steps away, is miles apart in terms of prestige. Until its recent renovation, the basement housed the Harvard Student Agencies; many students remember it as the place they went to drop off their dry cleaning...
There is no doubt that this adaptation of the Wyatt Earp tale is better than all the others, the only interesting question concerns the level of excellence that Ford achieves with this film. On the surface, the plot seems too trivial to deal with moral questions raised in the movie. With such clear-cut issues and black-and-white characters. "My Darling Clementine" finds nuance to be an unreachable plateau. "My Darling Clementine" is about good vs. evil and the triumph of the American way of life. Tombstone is a town where the law rules thanks to the strong hand...
...great scheme of things, the issue of whether or not the Fly and other final clubs eventually decide to admit women is trivial. In truth, the clubs occupy a tiny space on the very periphery of life at Harvard, and only a very small number of self-important men belong to them anyway...