Word: trivializes
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...Greek resistance's commanding general, led the parade, wore the hero's laurel wreath, took the public bows. He then set himself up as regional commissar. Allied officers then in Salonika said: "He believed in running everything himself. No detail was too small, no decision too trivial to require his personal attention. He had the urge to be boss in a big way." When Zach-ariades decided to boycott the national elections of 1946 and to build up a Communist revolutionary force, Markos took to the hills...
Deadline in March. Robert Schuman's way of summing up the situation, at the level of the deliberate commonplace, made his government's crisis sound almost trivial. But Frenchmen knew what he meant. And they knew that if Schuman failed in his efforts to halt rising prices, and his coalition government fell, the situation might be beyond the power of any new coalition to solve. That would almost certainly mean an early showdown between the two challenging opposites in France today-Charles de Gaulle's super-party, Rassemblement du Peuple Français, and the Communists...
...Across the Sea, Fumed Oak, Shadow Play). Ways and Means, telling about a stony-broke but determinedly gay couple visiting in a stylish Riviera villa, and Family Album, in which a Victorian family drink themselves out of mourning Papa's death into welcoming it, had always seemed pretty trivial. But last week they also seemed pretty trashy, and not much fun. Only Red Peppers, an onstage-backstage-onstage chronicle of a pair of bickering, third-rate British hoofers, retained any real life or laughter...
...suicide. Perhaps. . . . In his last 20 minutes, Playwright Priestley has a high old time perhapsing. Unfortunately, he has been prosing for so long before that his last-minute fireworks cannot save the play as a whole from seeming tedious. They can only, in fact, rather double-damn it as trivial...
...veteran of the Council's wars in the Forties marveled the other day at the increased "responsiveness of the Council to the things students are interested in and are worrying about." He was thinking in terms of Council activity on Parking, on HAA administration of grid tickets, on a trivial issue such as laundry machines for the House basements--veritable revolutionary adventures by contrast with the Councils of another decade...