Word: trivializations
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Burly, surly-mannered fellows slouched in the corridors of a high school in Cicero, Ill. last week. They rasped commands: "Get along now! No loitering!" They insulted girls, jostled students who infringed upon even the most trivial school regulation. Complained a student: "These dumb house dicks push us around like we're convicts at Joliet...
...However trivial the matter of providing convenient communication may be to the individual, in the aggregate it presents a serious need. Providing telephones is not only a matter of profit to the telephone company, or of convenience to the loquacious. It is a wise provision for emergencies which demand immediate relief...
...many a plain citizen the speech sounded like a new and bolder Hoover. The President's campaign managers assured him that it had already made hundreds of thousands of votes for him. Even the Democrats were restrained or trivial in their criticism. James Middleton Cox, for example, conceded: "It is decidedly Hoover's best effort. It shows, marked improvement in spirit and courage. He has made the best out of a very bad case...
...every $100 of national wealth. From this one may conclude that the sum total of the War Debts is such a trifling item that it cannot possibly be responsible for all the woes with which it is charged; or one may conclude that the total sum is so trivial that our attitude is analogous to attempting to sue our friend who borrowed from us last week a nickel for a telephone call...
...would have been easy for the director to make the love incidents into an over-luscious and trivial idyll, but instead he has managed to give them a distinct epic quality. Similarly, he might have reduced the religious emotion to the common denominator of funeral-parlor music and rapt faces photographed through gauze. Instead, the impressive pictures of St. Peter's and the deep chanting of the choir are allowed to tell their own story without sugar coating. This reviewer has never seen such an authentic setting-forth in a film of the hypnotic power of the Church of Rome...