Word: trivialize
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...course, we’re all guilty of this social abuse. The rationale—admittedly faulty—rests upon the notion that after a span of time, when a friendship is based on trivial shared experiences, it’s superfluous to continue the cordialities simply because of social etiquette. Yet, as we become veteran Harvardians, this avoidance of acquaintances is ironic, since upperclass students often feel increasingly alone. Unlike with first-years who, in order to integrate into social life, must actively seek out new friends, this tradition is taboo amongst upperclass students. In turn, upperclass students...
...what matters? Having a President who understands the war and has the political courage to make the necessary decisions. Everything else is trivial...
...word is. It was the only way to scare up an audience in those days. But this is a different world now. And we are being forced to examine the most serious, complicated sorts of issues--war and solvency--through an anachronistic, irresponsible political-media lens created for more trivial times. So I guess I'm one of Lehrer's haters too: I hate the Anger-Industrial Complex...
...Lawrence H. Summers says that every Harvard graduate ought to know the difference between a gene and a chromosome, I hope he’s offering more than just his support for genetics courses. All Harvard students ought simply to understand the vocabulary of science. This is not a trivial task—one Harvard chemistry professor likens the number of new terms taught in an introductory science course to the number of words taught in a semester of foreign language. At the very least, students shouldn’t instinctively recoil when we encounter any remotely scientific-sounding phrase?...
...happening? The obvious, almost trivial answer is that we eat too much high-calorie food and don't burn it off with enough exercise. If only we could change those habits, the problem would go away. But clearly it isn't that easy. Americans pour scores of billions of dollars every year into weight-loss products and health-club memberships and liposuction and gastric bypass operations--100,000 of the latter last year alone. Food and drug companies spend even more trying to find a magic food or drug that will melt the pounds away. Yet the nation's collective...