Word: trivialized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most recent example was the Faculty's seemingly trivial debate over the "Docket Committee" last week. Many liberals left that meeting feeling they had won a major victory by cutting the Docket Committee's power...
...pleasant romance of the drama and its trappings. The first episode continues this artificiality by omitting foreground objects and shoving the characters up against backdrops, divorcing their plain flat facial lighting from the elaborate play of shadows on the flat sets. When the characters decide to join this trivial game of love, the bright spots of light dancing on the walls behind them begin to hit their faces, and the circle of love-affairs begins...
...audience to watch a divertissement. But Anton Walbrook's introduction mentions our "curiosity...people want to see all sides of life." This "curiosity" makes us follow the affairs of Ophuls' characters and sets up the final reversal when the plot comes full circle. Emotions that began the film trivial and simple, and became deeper and more important to the characters, are lost in the proliferation of incidents and characters. Our detachment imperceptibly increases as his characters grow older and more sophisticated, as their relations become games between people who know how to manage each other. We lose the little intensity...
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...Rosenbloom said that his talk was to persuade Faculty members that "they should commit themselves to a process of self-examination, education, and renewal that will require more than a trivial amount of their time in the next two years...