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...review the dialogue as it occurred. In my presentation, I quoted Alex Comfort's two commandments; "Do not exploit another's feelings, and do not cause an unwanted birth," I cautioned, however, that often middle-class people put off having children, or even compel abortions, for the most trivial or venal reasons, or mere convenience; they out themselves off from big experience. Dr. Blaine then chose as his principle theme the "tragedy" of the unwed pregnant girl. A student then protested that if Dr. Blaine thought that this was such an ultimate evil, why didn't the University clinic provide...
...concern of a physicist with Newton has almost nothing in common with the concern of an English scholar with Shakespeare. And in science, truth is single, there is only one correct answer to a question, whereas in the humanities there are many answers to all but the most trivial questions...
Rhinoceros is clever if not especially profound. As the play begins, some French villagers are passing their Sunday afternoon with trivial conversation. A rhinoceros thunders through the middle of town. A second follows, and a preposterous argument ensues. Did the rhinos have one or two horns, were they African or Asian? The town logician (J. Frank Lucas) confuses the people with his circuitous syllogisms, and M. Botard (Robert Gaus) insists that the rhinos couldn't possibly exist--or if they do, they must be stooges in a capitalist plot...
Thus last week the son of Winston Churchill propelled himself past yet another turning in his tempestuous journalistic career. The cause seemed trivial, but then, Randolph Churchill has habitually splintered his freelance over trifles. And anyway, it was only a matter of time until the News of the World joined the long list of newspapers where Churchill had previously found working conditions intolerable...
...newsmen copies of more than 200 letters, admitted that some of them showed that he maintained "an interest in the welfare of the bank." But he denied that any "of these instances in any way involved my official responsibilities." Added Korth: "I deeply resent any insinuation that these few trivial incidents and communications raise a question concerning my character." Korth, who spent last week in Bethesda Naval Medical Center for a long-delayed ear operation, insisted that his resignation was entirely voluntary, that he quit because of policy differences with McNamara and personal financial problems. Aides further explained that...