Word: trivializations
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...well take place at separate universities, so poor is our institutional memory about student life. So to the residents of Cabot House, I say: fear not, as you are not alone in your suffering. My roommate has recovered fully, life has moved on, and your experience is trivial compared to the Cabot House bug of 2011. JOHN E. RASKIN ’03 New York, N.Y. January...
...gourmet coffee, I thought I should never again complain about having to wait in line an extra minute or two or having to shovel the walkway after a snowstorm or gripe when a store is out of my favorite item. The next time I get upset over trivial, everyday things, I should step back and look at the big picture. Jeffrey N. Achber Laconia, New Hampshire...
...little more formidable. As he put it on Larry King, "the emotional truth is there." In other words, whatever the nitty-gritty bookkeepers turn up, his story has an empathic force, a psychological power, that makes the actual factual status of his writing kind of moot, and renders trivial the question of where it should be shelved in the bookstore...
...true, Frey endowed it with a heightened immediacy and an emotional force that it lacked as a novel-in effect, he borrowed a little extra emotional oomph from his trusting readers, who treated his narrative as 100% lived experience, real dues paid by a real person. That's not trivial. If Frey wasn't entitled to that immediacy and that force-if he stole that oomph rather than borrowed it-well, that's cheating. And he should come clean and give it back...
...gourmet coffee, I thought I should never again complain about having to wait in line an extra minute or two or having to shovel the walkway after a snowstorm or gripe when a store is out of my favorite item. The next time I get upset over trivial, everyday things, I should step back and look at the big picture. Jeffrey N. Achber Laconia, New Hampshire, U.S. Your editors enhanced the nation's misery index in smashing style with the overwhelming number of pictures that were a stark visualization of ugliness, suffering and pain. Didn't any of your photographers...