Word: trivializations
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...Back from a month's concert tour of England was Violinist Yehudi Menuhin with a different report. The entertainment at the camps there, he said, was too "light and trivial . . . the soldiers need inspiration, need more than a joke"-serious music...
...Sparrow, a human sort of bird who is forever quarreling with Mrs. Sparrow over trivial war annoyances. Each week, after a tiff, he flies off in a fret to his club or the Other Sparrow while a tear trickles down Mrs. Sparrow's beak...
...Holmes preserved the unregenerate spirit he confessed, at 27, to William James: "There are not infrequent times when a bottle of wine, a good dinner, a girl of some trivial sort can fill the hour for me." But that was not the whole of it. On the night of his 70th birthday he picked up his pen: "One learns from time an amiable latitude with regard to beliefs and tastes. Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. . . . Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth...
...England Repertory Company has opened its fifth season with a complex of paradoxes. Most striking of them is the first production, Jean Ferguson Black's "Penny Wise." Despite compounded line muffing and faulty pacing, the Repertory Players manage to make refreshing entertainment of a trivial but sparkling comedy. What plot there is can be summed up as "triangle plus happy ending." The cast, except for a few outstanding Repertory regulars, is distressingly spotty...
From 1600 to 1900 the western world produced many great painters, but very few of them expressed themselves in murals. Those who did usually contented themselves with mere decoration and illustration. If they attempted monumental subject matter they usually failed. Such failures, pretentious and sanctimonious, or cloying and trivial, adorned the walls of many a 19th-Century library and court house...