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...alarming portion of young people in Cleveland (where I live) seem rude, insolent and very vague about what is right or wrong. This includes seemingly trivial things: shouting at people walking by, rude jokes about girls, exaggerated "sex-interest," exaggerated "money-consciousness," and disinterest in anything worthier than crime novels, gangster films and certain magazines . . . ADOLF A. PERLES Cleveland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 17, 1951 | 9/17/1951 | See Source »

...Lanza and other stage figures is indicative of a weakness in our democracy. The human race desperately needs objects and principles to believe in and worship . . . Perhaps, if democracy could find some way to glamorize its better elements, the people wouldn't fall for so much that is trivial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 27, 1951 | 8/27/1951 | See Source »

Through Channels. Into this labyrinth of procedure, personalities and policy, messages chatter night & day, seeking decisions, recommendations, remedies. They range from the crucial to the trivial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: The House of Brass | 7/2/1951 | See Source »

...Trivial but Difficult. Some M.I.T. students disapproved of the show. "I think everything should be useful or instructive," a physics major said impatiently. "This is neither. In mathematical terms, the stuff is trivial. Given certain conditions, theta as a function of T is completely determined. It can all be boiled down to elliptical integrals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Connecticut Yankee | 1/8/1951 | See Source »

Harvard is a superb institution. Its teaching staff is incomparable. besides, it has fabulous facilities. We all recognize these attributes. But in spite of them, I have one minor complaint. Mind you, it's only trivial, but I feel that the administration should spare a little of its valuable time to examine this trifling-complaint. It only involves the lives of the students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Attacks Medical Service | 1/8/1951 | See Source »

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