Word: trivializations
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Such in brief is my report on the academic year which ends this afternoon. Some of you with grave responsibility for war and postwar affairs heavy on your shoulders may feel that I have been speaking of relatively trivial academic matters. If so, I beg to differ. Universal education is the great instrument created by American democracy to secure the foundations of a republic of free men. Our colleges and universities are an integral part of this system which has no equivalent in other lands. We are more closely linked to the national life, I believe, than the corresponding institutions...
...sudden death of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt at this moment in our history is a world tragedy of such magnitude as to render trivial all conventional expressions of grief and homage. Friends of freedom in all countries must respond to this challenge given them by fate and insure by their efforts the realization of his aims...
...many voices [have spoken] for special and by comparison trivial interests they seem to have stifled the voice of national interest and suffocated the bill. Enemies of the bill are beginning to boast today in the streets of Washington that they have killed...
...others, the anxiety would concern matters less subtle and trivial. The picture of a trim, slim brunette with a baby in her arms appeared on the front pages of Miami newspapers not long ago. Ada Forren, the girl in the picture, is 18. She had married her Navy husband just four months before the baby was born; she had no assurance that she would ever see him again. In a childish fit of despair, Ada had given her baby away for adoption. Now she had to go to court to get the baby back. She did. But how would...
Amid an atmosphere of multi-colored hatching suits in an ideal California setup, Esther Williams and Red Skelton run through the paces of another trivial, escapist musical. The big surprise is that "bathing beauty" Esther can actually swim...