Word: trivialized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...committee submitted its proposals to RGA last week, asking for revisions of present rules but avoiding the issue. Mrs. Bunting asked them to consider: do Cliffies need sign-out rules? Most of their recommendations were trivial, and a few were more restrictive than the present rules. The committee suggested that freshmen be permitted to sign out without permission until 1 a.m., sophomores before Thanksgiving until 3 a.m., and upperclassmen until any hour, provided that they did not sign out after 3 a.m. for more than three nights...
...English translation of the book is probably neither as precise nor as eloquent as the original French. In my borrowed hardback copy, for instance, Mr. Lacouture had to write in several corrections. But the few errors are trivial; and the concise historical narrative, perceptive analysis, and original imagery more than compensate for the difficulties of the translation...
...government with only three to five months of existence left to it simply should not be a subject of great attention. It is a trivial thing. I am much more concerned about possible disloyal actions by Thieu and Ky, whether or not they remain in positions of power. I cannot guess the future, but to this point the words of these men have not been supported by their actions. The Marine battalions remaining near Danang are an example of what I mean...
...have very thoroughly withdrawn from the theory of messages, Berryman no less than most; but the man is fully as anxious to see people grasp what the poem is about as he is to alarm and confuse them with unusual language. He began writing, he says, "as a burning trivial disciple of the great Irish poet William Butler Yeats," but Yeats "could not teach me to sound like myself (whatever that was) or tell me what to write about." What drove him away from Yeats, through periods of Eliot and Auden, and finally into the ambiguous arms of Anne Bradstreet...
...over our bodies," wrote Popescu, "and since this didn't seem to satisfy them, they ordered us to take off our clothes. I opened my mouth wide and said 'Aaaaaaaah,' just to show I had no books inside." Though Red bluenoses scored the book as "decadent, trivial and pornographic," Popescu seems safe from chastisement: the party paper Scinteia (Spark) endorsed him as "a talented author, justly praised by both readers and critics." The regime has no praise, however, for Novelist Petru Dumitriu, a defector whose superb 1964 novel Incognito viciously dissected the Communist seizure of power...