Word: trivialized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...organization vary, but there is unanimity on one point--the HUC must stake out-a section of the decision-making turf for its own. Conceding academic matters to the HPC, University-Community issues to the Student-Faculty Advisory Council, the HUC is left only with such well-worn or trivial topics as parietals, inter-house dining, and house athletics...
TCHAIKOVSKY: QUEEN OF SPADES (4 LPs; Melodiya/Angel). Because of the form's grandeur of aspiration and complexity of means, it is difficult to find a trivial opera. Yet Tchaikovsky managed to write a nearly flawless bit of trivia when he sat down to put silly music to a silly libretto about a fateful faro game and an old countess who is scared to death. That's right, scared to death by a mad gambler named Herman. In this recording, the role of the Countess is fairly well sung by Mezzo-Soprano Valentina Levko, and Herman is less well...
...council's task in organizing itself and gaining a wide base of support has not been made any easier by Dean Ford's gratuitous decision to ban from membership students who are on probation. The unfortunate result was that the Advisory Council's first order of business was a trivial discussion of whether a duly elected student representative should be seated...
...forestall such a possibility, the Federal Reserve Board moved in its role as a monetary balance wheel. In place of its tight money policy of 1966, the Fed all year literally stuffed banks with funds. In its early stages, the massive infusion helped to keep the economic dip trivial. For a few months, interest rates fell, but as the mini-recession melted away, voracious business demand for loans reversed that trend. Corporations borrowed $16 billion through bonds and other debt securities in 1967, almost half again as much as a year earlier. State and local borrowing also rose sharply...
...Some trivial incident involving Pozdnyshev's wife-like drinking her tea too noisily-makes him "loathe her as though she were committing some hideous crime." In passage after passage, The Kreutzer Sonata reveals Tolstoy's disgust with marriage, which he felt was Sonya's way of gaining power over him. It is nothing but "legalized prostitution," says Pozdnyshev. Sonya's anger and humiliation were compounded by the fact that she had just borne her 13th child...