Word: trivializations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...class of '43, however jaded by the war, was characterized by its acute awareness of its role in world politics as well as its commitment to society at large. Students confronted matters as trivial as broken curfews and as solemn as deceased classmates. They ate in the Union; they taunted Elis at The Game; they attended classes in Sever and Emerson...
...trivial event resonated because it served as an emblem of Clinton's troubles: the seesawing on Bosnia, the collapse of the stimulus plan and Democratic attacks on his tax increases. In a TIME/CNN poll, only 33% of those surveyed think the President has done a good job of keeping his campaign promises, down from 44% in mid-February. Just 27% think he has made a good effort toward reducing the budget deficit, a plunge from 48%. He gets good marks for leadership from 50%, but that is down from...
...Trivial Pursuit--how one can answer 145 questions in a very short period with no context and in many instances no thought does not tell you anything about a person's ability to succeed in college," says Robert A. Schaeffer, public education director at Fairtest...
...over two weeks watching her father -- the gruff, authoritarian and inspiring Hugh Rodham -- slowly slip away. She comes from a family so bizarrely intact that the whole group went on the Clintons' honeymoon to Acapulco. The extended family had dinner together most weekends and played marathon games of Trivial Pursuit and Hungarian rummy, a card game so byzantine in its bylaws that only close friends or relatives can participate...
...might really confide in one another. Maybe because they are, in a sense, all variations on the same person. The series (created by Seinfeld with writer Larry David) is, like several other new-generation sitcoms, an outgrowth of stand-up comedy material. Episodes spin off the sort of trivial incidents and observations that Seinfeld dwells on in his monologues. (Jerry feels guilty over a gift pen; Jerry's girlfriend thinks he picks his nose...