Word: trivializes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these criticisms are trivial when one considers the book's basic fallacy, summarized in the over-discussed title essay. Miss Sontag argues that the concern of the critic is not to discover the "meaning" of a work, but to talk around it. She never gets around to defining "meaning", but one gathers that she equates it with paraphrasable content...
Soft-Shoe Act. Lindsay's other problems seemed almost trivial beside New York City's financial morass. Though Candidate Lindsay blithely said, "There is no question but that the line must be held on taxation," Mayor Lindsay inherited a $400 million deficit in the current fiscal year and an anticipated shortage of nearly $600 million next year. Lindsay now seeks $780 million a year in new tax revenue, including an income levy on residents and commuters that would give New Yorkers the dubious distinction of being the most highly taxed metropolitanites in the country. For this measure...
...history to the girls' private affairs also creates momentary strain, since the audience cannot really profit much from learning that the German army has attacked Poland just after good ole Pokey (Mary-Robin Redd) delivers her second set of twins. Although The Group's McCarthyish airs are trivial as sociology, more dazzling than deep as drama, no sorority party in years has dished out so much trenchant and exhilarating tattle...
City-Bred Muscle. This and most other urban problems seem almost trivial in comparison with those created by the changing race structure. Says Economist Miles Colean: "We can't get around the sad fact that middle-class families living in the city who depend on public schools have not made up their minds that they can live with Negroes." Weaver adds pointedly: "We need an open suburbia-not just an upper-and middle-income-class suburbia...
...Amintore Fanfani, who left the Cabinet under fire in December because of his (and his wife's) bumbling attempts to solve the Viet Nam crisis. Fanfani forced Moro to resign in January by talking some of Moro's (and his) fellow Christian Democrats into voting down a trivial nursery-school bill in the Chamber of Deputies. Fanfani wanted more than to just get back into the Cabinet. He wanted Moro out. So he persuaded the right wing of the Christian Democrats to insist on the inclusion of their leader, ex-Premier Mario Scelba, in any new Cabinet...