Word: trivializations
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...charge I resent is contained by implication in your phrase, "the 'What I Did This Summer' themes of English A." The implication amounts to saying that English A invites trivial papers on trivial subjects. This, of course, is directly contrary to the policy which I have done my utmost to urge both upon the instructing staff and, whenever I have had an opportunity, on students in the course. I am responsible for the slogan, "The unforgivable theme is the theme without a subject." It is perfectly true that we usually begin the year with one or more assignments asking...
...will restore him to balance. He must be self-assertive, i.e., he must give full rein to his "exploratory" nature, and by thinking for himself, break through the "horny crust" of habit and convention. If he performs this self-assertion courageously, he will escape from the vanities of the "Trivial Plane" into the self-transcending verities and "cosmic perspective" of the "Tragic Plane." On the other hand, nothing, in these bad days, can save him if he obstinately clings to an uninspired, everyday way of life; for, as Melville's preacher has expressed it in Moby Dick...
...King's illness, certainly not trivial, has been developing for many months, but he did not consult any of the palace doctors until about ten days before the birth of Princess Elizabeth's son. First symptoms are usually tired legs and cold feet; he has probably been suffering from these symptoms for some time, but blamed too much walking or standing. On Nov. 6 he did a lot of cross-country walking while hunting at Windsor; that night, after attending a British Legion Remembrance Festival, he complained that his right foot bothered him, but the next...
...published his first poems, joined the Army under an assumed name, served two years, and in 1830 was appointed to West Point. Much older than his fellow cadets, and a hardened veteran, he spent seven months at the Point, then engineered his own court-martial and dismissal (for trivial offenses...
...Williams College, left a stain upon this editor's blotter which must be purged by vitriol . . . Hurling three columns of ketchup at the group which inferiorated him . . he retires from the field, having given space long filled by eminent philosophers and editors to a personal and trivial hurling of tomatoes in the essence...