Word: trivialize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tend to make viewers more attentive and look more favorably upon both Dukakis and his message. The program will allow voters to see Dukakis at length and get a better sense of who he is--a widespread complaint has been that he is not very personable. This is no trivial matter; people prefer voting for someone they feel they know...
...Pledge of Allegiance. This bare-knuckled attack aimed to accomplish two things. One was to locate and identify the Governor for a national audience. The Republicans' intentions, of course, were malign, but they found their opening in Dukakis' relative obscurity outside his home state. The Republicans hoped that a trivial action, which had passed almost unnoticed in the political culture of Massachusetts, would have a different resonance when replayed in the political culture of the country as a whole. The second purpose of the pledge attack was to restate an old Republican Party theme: the G.O.P.'s patriotism is somehow...
...then there is the doctor again. Williams specifies that this character should be a handsome blond. At first, such instructions appear trivial, considering that they do come from an author who describes even the design of the plates in The Glass Menagerie. But later, when Sebastian's sexual proclivities are questioned and when Mrs. Venable tells the doctor that her son would have liked him, these stage notes become quite important. Catherine even comments, "Cousin Sebastian was famished for blonds," calling herself and Mrs. Venable his "procuresses...
...scrolling the information instead.) What this means is that anyone seeking to print collected displays will have to edit the file first to get rid of the cursor-moving escape sequences. What gives? After years of modifying software OIT had to get from another university, can't the most trivial ease-of-use features be integrated into the system...
...pledge issue is not trivial. It is not fluff. It is about the great gulf which still separates the dream from reality. Such gulfs do not simply pass away over time, they remain deep until they are filled. This year, either the gulf will remain, or as in 1960, a new bridge will be erected...