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Quayle found especially valuable the tutoring of Democrat Mondale. Among other things, Mondale urged Quayle to avoid getting bogged down as head of dozens of presidential task forces and commissions. In Mondale's view, such assignments almost inevitably turn into trivial pursuits. It is no accident that most of Quayle's tutors were right of center. His instincts are deeply conservative, and though he insists he will not act as a "spear carrier" for the right, one conservative activist views him as a potential provider of "political intelligence" about what is going on in the Administration. Bush aides, however...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Education of a Standby | 1/30/1989 | See Source »

...charges are not trivial, and neither is the challenge. At issue is the freedom of a filmmaker -- or any artist -- to twist the facts as they are recalled, to shape the truth as it is perceived. May a movie libel the historical past? And has Mississippi Burning done so? Artistic liberty vs. social responsibility: the stakes are high. The memories are indelible. The battle lines are drawn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Fire This Time | 1/9/1989 | See Source »

Scholars outside the University say that Harvard acted too hastily by accepting the resignation of Dr. Shervert H. Frazier, 67, on November 23. They say the school ignored Frazier's accomplishments by dismissing him over what one professor called a "trivial" matter...

Author: By Lisa A. Taggart, | Title: Plagiarism Punishment Questioned | 12/3/1988 | See Source »

...that article, Frazier cited a sourcecorrectly, but failed to bracket an extractionfrom the text in quotation marks. While Scatenacalled this "clearly wrong," Ramona said that thiserror was "some-what trivial...

Author: By Lisa A. Taggart, | Title: Plagiarism Punishment Questioned | 12/3/1988 | See Source »

According to Elkies, there is a similar simplicity in music. "Think of the simple opening--dum dum dum dum!--of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. In music you start out with a trivial motif and it turns into this beautiful, intricate composition," he says. "Again, it all stems from this small, very simple idea...

Author: By Alison D. Morantz, | Title: Music + Math: A Common Equation? | 11/30/1988 | See Source »

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