Word: trivializations
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Probably more significant, however, has been the Council's reaction to current and urgent needs, rather than its solutions to trivial and vague ones. After the HAA had entangled itself in its own red tape this fall, preventing students from securing tickets by any of the rules, the Council persuaded Mr. Lunden to open its doors one Friday afternoon to some two hundred undergraduates who had been baffled by his system. When PBH fell into dire financial straits, the Council came to the rescue not only with its own funds, but with three thousand dollars it "inspired" from other sources...
Masters made good in and out of combat. His descriptions of camp and barracks life often seem trivial in detail, but in the end they tell what it was that kept generations of Englishmen in a service that had little to offer but comradeship, pride in outfit and a sense of duty. Masters does not pretty up military service, and he does not try to pretty up India. Yet he obviously loved them both and manages to convey the quality of his. affection. His story closes in 1939 when, at 25, he was still a lieutenant in an army that...
Bonjour Tristesse, by Françoise Sagan, a French girl with an existentially sad face, had a trivial triangle plot, raised above itself by unerringly accurate writing-and by the reader's chilling realization that its worldly insights were achieved by a 17-year-old author. It was the most successful book from outside the English-speaking world. The Germans continued to disappoint (Gerhard Kramer's We Shall March Again, and Heinrich Büll's Adam, Where Art Thou?), but other countries contributed moving items...
...secrets. "Well, there was his half brother Philipp [20 years his senior] whom he suspected of being his mother's mate . . ." Jones guesses that this half brother may have given young Sigmund some joking version of the facts of life that may have hurt the child. This relatively trivial explanation of what Jones justly calls a noble striving is typical of a danger that psychoanalysis often faces the danger of keeping its eyes not on the heights but on the mushrooms. But Analyst Jones is also conscious of the heights when he concludes...
...President's own mind, one close observer said to Robinson that it was "indolent, superficial, gay, deeply interested in the trivial-yet forced to deal with subjects and problems beyond its comprehension...