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...sculpture, which is still much underrated) rarely seemed as impressive as his early collages or his dreamlike images of the '20s and '30s, it still bore testimony to one of the most durable and fertile talents of our entire culture, a great enemy of the trivial and the bogus and the solemn...
...time is the University Food Services. Today, in celebration of an ethnic holiday of a religious source, students were served "St. Patrick's Cake" during lunch. On Monday night, however, on a Jewish religious holiday, Purim, no effort was made to celebrate that festival with Hamentashen. Although an admittedly trivial case, this incident underscores those of this year's Yom Kippur registration and Christmas Dinner. What makes it especially insulting is the maintenance of a non-sectarian guise. Harvard should either recognize and admit its unequal treatment of religions or it should eliminate every semblance of inequality. Ruben George Perlmutter...
...response is unique to each individual. One person can live through years of bombing with no effect. In another case, something as trivial as the ringing of a bell provoked a fatal attack in a healthy young woman," Lown said...
...hand, the autonomy and privileged status of cirticism depends on the contention that literature provides crucial insights for moral and political life. But on the other hand, the formalistic method to which this autonomy gave rise reduces literature to an elaborate arrangement of patterns and designs, to a trivial if complex amusement, which is devoid of significance because it lacks any connection with human values. Thus American literary criticism has had little to offer those genuinely concerned with understanding the self and society, and consequently has been shut out of serious intellectual discourse...
Even after years of contemplating Hitler's atrocities, Speer exhibits no genuine revulsion. His few denunciations of Hitler are either rhetorical or trivial. He never resolves the secret of his attraction to Hitler. Such attempts at explanation as "I regarded Hitler above all as the preserver of the world of the nineteenth century" are hardly adequate...