Word: trivialize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Every action, gesture and word by a President-elect and his staff becomes symbolic of something larger expected later. Every contact, every appointee is a declaration of policy that may rock the world. Nothing is too trivial, remote or obscure. Already the quivering hordes of analysts have perceived the Rea gan global strategist (Alexander Haig), most powerful legislative ally (Paul Laxalt), shadow behind the power (Richard Nixon), new fashion color (brown...
...things considered, there is something rotten in this state of Denmark, and it is time to ask someone who knows--someone who can give an intelligent, well thought out analysis based on countless viewings, an appreciation and knowledge of the game, wholly unimpaired by such trivial considerations as objectivity--the fans...
WILSON ENTERED a longstanding intellectual debate when he published Sociobiology: the "Nature vs. Nurture" controversy. This dispute in its extreme form, pits the idea of human destiny determined solely by genes against the notion that environment molds the individual with the genetic constitution having only trivial effects. Most participants in the controversy hold views lying somewhere in between. They might, for instance, hold that while sexual drives derive from the genetic heritage, their expression is culturally defined and varies with changing mores...
...trouble, however, since we are watching our lives and not a movie, is that in reality a detached presidency puts decisions in the hands of everyone else. No harm is done when the issues are trivial, but as the piecemeal nature of the Cabinet appointments has demonstrated, relying so totally on advisers is a dangerous game. The prospect grows considerably more troublesome when it comes to making major decisions. And there will be plenty of those as soon as Reagan takes office?all complicated and many urgent...
...Liberman, the details of the offenses the committee charged him with seemed trivial. "The issue to all of us wasn't that we had done it, but whether it was right. And they weren't prepared to argue that with us," he says...