Word: trivialized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...miasma of decaying faiths, whether in Jacobinism or in the church, that leaves the air redolent with cynicism. Even the material world is forbidding. Citizens must seek treatment in hospital buildings that may date from the 17th century, archaic highways are jammed, and telephones do not work- a trivial complaint, perhaps, but symbolic of a more profound lack of communication between groups and generations. "Weary and shrewish" Paris, the heart of the country, has become, "beyond question, the most exhausting capital in the world...
...professors have been critical of ranking and grade averaging for many years, primarily because job recruiters regard them as the most important criteria for employment. In a memorandum circulated in March, the Joint Committee charged, "When such substantial differences in class rank [as detailed above] depend on such a trivial difference in averages, students can only be encouraged to make grades into a fetish...
...question of whether "Visual and Environmental Studies" or "Architectural Sciences" will be printed on one's degree is not an altogether trivial matter. Many in Arch Sci will graduate having concentrated mostly in Visual Studies now that the two departments are essentially the same. "Architectural Sciences" will misrepresent the nature of their study...
...machinations of Radcliffe student politics--generally monotonous and frequently trivial--usually elicit either apathy or ridicule from Harvard and Radcliffe students. But the present RUS constitution fight has taken on an importance far greater than the specific issues involved. The Radcliffe. Trustees, by their unreasonable and seemingly arbitrary inflexibility, have made the dispute symbolic of larger principles of student rights and Administration integrity...
...Mahler movement was the supreme irony of the evening. Rendered almost trivial by the surgery which removed it from the symphony, the Adagio was given a sympathetic performance despite the inevitable failure of the undermanned strings to produce the necessary breadth of sound...