Word: trivializes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President honed his sharpest barbs for those critics-notably Sovietologist George Kennan and Pundit Walter Lippmann-who contend that Viet Nam's destiny is a trivial matter compared with the defense of Western Europe. To this thesis, Johnson replied: "We cannot raise a double standard to the world. We cannot hold freedom less dear in Asia than in Europe." Nor, he suggested pointedly, should the U.S. "be less willing to sacrifice for men whose skin is a different color...
...That TIME is middlebrow, trivial and superficial is well known to all thoughtful, serious men; but that it is ignorant and banal is a fact pushed to the fore in such pieces as the cliche-ridden double page on homosexuality. It takes TIME to make such spinsterlike judgments as the last sentence in the article...
...last days of reading period are lays of quiet desperation, during which we occupy ourselves with an increased number of trivial activities. To accommodate anyone who wants to think about something other than Akkadian 132hf, we present the following rock and roll quiz. The first person to bring all the answers to the CRIMSON before Friday with a warped copy of the answer to question number...
Homosexual ethics and esthetics are staging a vengeful, derisive counterattack on what deviates call the "straight" world. This is evident in "pop," which insists on reducing art to the trivial, and in the "camp" movement, which pretends that the ugly and banal are fun. It is evident among writers, who used to disguise homosexual stories in heterosexual dress but now delight in explicit descriptions of male intercourse and orgiastic nightmares. It is evident in the theater, with many a play dedicated to the degradation of women and the derision of normal sex. The most sophisticated theatrical joke is now built...
...Michael Abram, has begun to serve the function--unique in Harvard history--which the bipartite constitution outlined for it. That document left to the HUC all the relatively boring and trivial issues of administration which had drawn its predecessor into dark lecture rooms and damp motorcycle lots. The HUC was to concern itself solely with academic policy. The Berkeley riots, which occured shortly before the new government began, highlighted the growing student interest--around the country--in educational policy. The HPC seemed a promising vehicle for converting interest into constructive reform...