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With a burst of energy the U.S. Senate passed 163 bills (most of them trivial). Among its works, the Senate...
...After all," he says, "the law is a precarious profession and it's not easy to come by this much money all at once." And he adds, with typical self-deprecation: "Especially for someone like me, whose one great tal ent is an infinite capacity for the trivial...
...their seriousness and the notably criminal circumstances surrounding them, and because they symbolize an alarming social disintegration." The church newspaper El Catolicismo was additionally irked that Rojas' son-in-law and No. 1 apologist, Samuel Moreno, should try to laugh off the riot in his newspaper as "trivial and paltry." Said El Catolicismo: "Thousands of witnesses denounce the vengeful spirit in which the riots avenged discourtesy with inhuman cruelty, cowardice [and] a reign of brute force...
...Herald said in its lead editorial yesterday morning, "Mr. Aldrich's record as a loyal citizen, lawyer, and judge is uninpeachable." The newspaper charged that McCarthy was seeking to intimidate the judiciary by attacking on "trivial" grounds, "a judge whose decision he disapproved...
Critic Pritchett concedes that Joyce had humor and "the imagination to turn his squalid people into giants first. No one can say that the characters of Ulysses are trivial in dimension, even though their preoccupations are mean, food-stained, dreary and unelevating. His people are Celtic monsters, encumbered by the squalor of their enormous burden of fleshly life-enormous because it is so detailed-and the dreadful, slow, image-spawning of their literal minds . . . One can see that, in Joyce's imitators, the interior monologue was a blow for democracy, a rather dreary one; the fact that...