Word: trivialized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Indeed, housing is but one example of the planners' indifference to the poor and their problems. Only four pages of the General Plan discuss the "disadvantaged," while ten assess transportation problems and another ten present an essentially trivial bibliography. Despite the glib slogans--"planning for people," "urban renewal without human renewal cannot work"--the problems of poverty and discrimination rest in a stratosphere of generality. The New Boston's designers outline a series of thoroughly acceptable and thoroughly unoriginal goals: "Break down discriminatory barriers that waste talent, inhibit motivation, limit educational achievement..." or "Eliminate adult illiteracy." Very nice. Very necessary...
...both the virtues and the faults of Morison's volume. It does present the incomparable sweep of the American story in the words of a justly respected historian. But it is also often disappointing and, as the account approaches the present, it becomes superficial and at times trivial...
Miller, for one, considers such alarms trivial in the light of the Bomb. "We are now passing through a period of what might be called 'cosmic insensitivity,' " he says, "a period when God seems more than ever absent from the world and man is doomed to come face to face with the fate he has created for himself. At such a moment, the question of whether a man be guilty of using obscene language in printed books seems to me inconsequential. It is almost as if, while taking a walk through a green field, I espied a blade...
...Netherlands, no issue is trivial if a principle is involved, and as Amsterdam's Algemeen Handelsblad observed in its best burgher manner, the broadcasting controversy "concerns fundamental rights and principles, and one cannot compromise in those matters...
Illegal Togetherness, Part of pot's attraction is "doing something illegal together," says one teenager. Another part, obviously, is the hallucinatory effect: "You think a lot of trivial thoughts -millions of little tiny thoughts go racing through your head." One girl, trying to capture such fantasies while high, wrote: "Notes from hemp head. Oh dear, the silent nothing around is very silent and very nothing. Outside seems terribly distant. I hear people talking and they are funny-because I am listening with illegal ears...