Word: trivialize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Government 29, on Government Regulation of Industry, is a valuable subject, especially for correlation with Economics, but the best word put in for the course was for the reading. Dr. Fainsod was the best lecturer; most of the other lectures were confused, digressive, or trivial, particularly those by Elliott...
...woman, a sort of minor Edna Millay, whose poems are completely negligible. They are readable and sufficiently sentimental to be a popular choice; they have a certain dexterity and gloss, often substituted for technical superiority and thought, easily overcoming the defences of mediocre critics, but they are hopelessly trivial. These triumphs in the treble of Marya Zaturenska and the glibness of Robert Hillyer have evidently rung louder in the cars of the Pulitzer Committee in recent years than the works of such really outstanding American poets as Tate, Stevens, Eberhart and Ransom, all of whom are of immeasurably greater stature...
...back. He lives there with Margot, his late wife's daughter by a previous marriage, and his secretary, Fraulein Helen Dukas, who since Frau Einstein's death last year has looked after his bank account, his clothes and other things which to him are equally trivial. In the morning he works at home with his assistant, Dr. Peter G. Bergmann, a member of the Institute for Advanced Study. In the afternoons he goes to his office in Fine Hall. In the evenings he goes to concerts whenever possible, once in a long while to the cinema...
...integrity, The Hidden Lincoln is a big book, dense and badly edited, repetitious, with few explanatory notes. Although it makes fascinating reading for people who know Herndon's Lincoln, it is likely to be alternately boring and shocking to others: boring in its painstaking inquiry into trivial matters of fact; shocking because of its candor in discussing Lincoln's doubtful paternity, his relations with his wife, his scrapes with women before his marriage...
...anyone will see, who cares to spend two and a half enjoyable hours at RKO Boston, Dolores Del Rio is back in circulation, more beautiful and versatile than ever. The picture which brings her back. "International Settlement," is trivial enough; it is a by-product of the excess footage news-reel crews brought back from China, and in noted for its phenomenal lack of anything resembling a plot. But it stars Miss Del Rio and it is a good picture...