Word: trivializes
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...news that nostalgia is sweeping the country. But students can't be nostalgic for an era that they never knew. No, the preference is not for the past, but for the trivial, the best of the trivial drama, from any era or in any style that is not threatening socially, ethically or politically...
...plays of this Harvard season do not challenge an audience to think clearly, to feel deeply or to attempt to resolve any problems which could conceivably be of importance to it. Trivial plays and musicals, at which scores of students will be sweating away this semester, make truly trivial events, stereotyped characters, and mediocre music seem real and significant. These productions distract us rather than direct us to real life and real problems, personal and political...
...Governor immediately professed that he knew nothing about the incident. In terms unfortunately reminiscent of those used by another politician under fire, he claimed that he had been too busy running the state to bother with such trivial matters as raising campaign funds...
When Stone praises "the campus rebels" who protested the Vietnam war, his judgment springs from a painful conclusion that the violence they may have provoked is trivial compared to the violence that provoked them: The war and the military have taken up so much of our energy that we have neglected the blacks, the poor and students... I feel that the New Left and the black revolutionists...are doing God's work...in refusing any longer to submit to evil, and challenging society to reform or crush them...
...chunks of Lampoon writing, including generous helpings from the parodies. The only glaring omission is the lack of material from the legendary 1965 Time parody. Otherwise, The Harvard Lampoon Centennial Celebration 1976-1973 contains a lifetime supply of Harvard humor and a fine testament to the Lampoon's unabashedly trivial last 97 years...