Word: trivializes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...joint statement by the society's three co-chairmen, Ellen Klein '68, Marc R. Dyen '70, and Jared Israel, called the charges "essentially accurate but.... very trivial haggling...
...example, the Medical School wants to find ways of shifting many of the doctor's more trivial chores to non-medical personnel, thus relieving the doctor shortage. It will also study the effectiveness of certain preventive techniques, such as innoculations, in combatting epidemic diseases...
...outrage simply cannot and should not be dealt with in narrow and punitive legalistic terms. The Dow protest has raised some very important issues about the role of the University, issues which the University should fully discuss and deal with, rather than attempting to shift the focus to essentially trivial questions of behavioral infractions. The University administration's attempt to isolate and divide the protestors is most ignoble. Those who share this moral outrage--faculty and students alike--should not allow these diverse tactics to prevail and should not allow the essential moral questions to be evaded. Chester W. Hartman...
...appetizing hors d'oeuvre of an actress can sometimes keep playgoers nibbling on toothpick drama. Broadway's latest dramatic toothpicks. Daphne in Cottage D and There's a Girl in My Soup, are inane, inept, tacky, trivial, and implausible, but Sandy Dennis and Barbara Ferris may yet prove potent teasers of the public palate...
...extremes. The last group was in the most ambivalent position, not ready to fight back and not willing to be pushed around. Instead they sat on the ground and linked arms and legs so that it would be clear that they were resisting arrest. But even this seemingly trivial decision was brought into question when it became clear that the more people held onto each other, the higher the number of casualties. In the end they decided that locking elbows was simply provoking the Marshals and that they should "go limp" as soon as they became the next target...