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...moment of rare and beautiful paradox. Harvard’s baseball games had never seemed more trivial. But its baseball team—and the human bonds that hold it together—had never seemed more important...
...going to rise to the ranks of the greats, and that kind of singular focus constricts your reality and makes you more vulnerable to distortions of it. "A chess genius," wrote George Steiner, "is a human being who focuses vast, little understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise. Almost inevitably, this focus produces pathological symptoms of nervous stress and unreality." Plausible, perhaps, but there are lots of folks who are monomaniacal in other "trivial" spheres and who come out psychically intact. Tiger Woods was raised from infancy to be a great golfer and is not just...
...each of our lives, there are moments that force us to rethink that which we have long imagined ourselves to “know.” Sometimes these moments are as trivial as coming to grips with the reality that Santa Claus is a mere winter myth, conjured to add an extra degree of excitement and magic to the Christmas holidays. Oftentimes, however, this type of experience can be much more undermining of one’s very foundations—whether they be political, spiritual, moral, or otherwise. These particular moments compel us to reassess the ideas that...
...cage of a world, and Jesus ascends into heaven on a forklift truck. Director Bill Bryden has preserved the vernacular tone and naive simplicity of the originals and has staged the action so that much of the audience can mingle with the actors. The atmosphere is festive yet never trivial, and whatever a spectator's religious convictions, the cumulative power of the story is overwhelming. --By William A. Henry...
...factoids, combined with the paper's abundant charts and polls, offer enough addictive minutiae each day to fuel a game of Trivial Pursuit. What is the original name of Falcon Crest? (The Vintage Years); what is America's favorite kind of cheesecake topping? (cherry); which color houses sell best? (yellow...