Word: trivializations
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...economy with it. Stassen's key suggestion: a strike should be called only if authorized by a secret ballot taken after all negotiations had failed. Snapped Ohio's Taft:-"I see no objection to it, but as a solution of the labor problem, I think it is trivial...
...human beastliness was one of the last (and most appropriate) to be published in Vienna before the Anschluss. Last year, it appeared in translation in England (where Bulgarian-born Author Canetti now lives) and set the critics ablaze pro & con. "Mere Central-European portentousness . . . at once heavy and trivial. . . . A terrific and inconsequent to-do about trifles,"harrumphed the dignified London Times Literary Supplement. "Appalling, magnificent," exclaimed the Spectator, "screams and bellows of evil out of which [a] supremely mad, unfaceable book is orchestrated . . . of which we dare not deny the genius...
Stuff & nonsense, snorted B. Dairedzhiev: "The happiness of a Soviet husband and wife sharing a community of interests would not be disturbed by any such trivial occurrence...
...Thomas Beecham, explosively opinionated conductor of the London Philharmonic, exploded again, this time not with a bang but a phfft. In May, recently home from a U.S. tour, he had called Hollywood "a universal disaster compared to which Hitler, Himmler and Mussolini were trivial." Now he qualified his damnation, decided that it was "the last word in triviality and morbidity...
...over horses; Robert likes antiques. Almost against his will, Robert keeps kissing a pretty girl (Diana Lynn) and Barbara is not amused. By reaching greedily for both realism and farce, the picture loses at both ends and rapidly falls apart in all directions. The solemn scenes emerge as tiresomely trivial. The comedy scenes, by contrast, are disquieting: they manage to characterize the hero and heroine as fairly unpleasant young people with oddly frivolous notions about earning a living, adultery, practical joking, simple decency and the training of young children...