Word: trivialized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same objection holds for another announcement that could be made today--that Harvard's endowment has reached the billion-dollar mark. This has clearly been in the offing for months, but as one Overseer remarked last night, "I should think that's pretty trivial...
...bodies give us a standard of creativity, an alternative and basis for rejecting trivial work," Dr. Bateson said. That the fact that a woman must choose the herself from several meaningful alternatives forces her to the painful rejection of desirable identities which cannot all be fulfilled...
With this statement of the "key problem" in hand, Banfield attacks government programs from all sides: if they are not trivial, they are ineffective; if by chance they do what they are intended to, they either ignore the central problem of poverty, aggravate it, or, at best, cancel each other out. In any case, (the final stab) effective action against poverty is politically out of the question...
...More devils can be routed by a little laughter than by a carload of humorless piety," writes Methodist Pastor Charles Merrill Smith in How to Be come a Bishop Without Being Religious (Doubleday; $3.50). The devils that Smith wants to exorcise are the phony pietism and the trivial hypocrisy that many a Protestant pastor has to indulge in if he intends to climb the hierarchical ladder of his church...
...grandson of Methodist preachers, Smith wrote his book late nights, sitting at the kitchen table. What motivated him was a lover's quarrel with the church. For he believes that "it behooves us who love the church to do what we can to eliminate the ridiculous and the trivial so that the glory, the dedication and the relevance may be seen unobscured...