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...state legislature which can give hours to personal byplay on trivial issues ought to be able to spend a few days earnestly deliberating a potentially critical change in the country's political structure. And organizations in this state which become rightfully indignant on relatively minor subjects before the legislature ought to think twice about the consequences of this amendment before shrugging it off as too trivial for their concerted opposition...
Three weeks ago, Ernie Bevin appealed to Stalin himself to let the wives go. It would be "very difficult," said Stalin, to reverse a decree of the Supreme Soviet. "It is clear," wrote the thoughtful Manchester Guardian, "that he [Good-willer Kuznetsov] thought it a very trivial matter. He could hardly be more mistaken. The truth is that to the great majority of Englishmen this means a much simpler test of the virtues and vices of the Soviet system than all the five-year plans and statistics which have come out of Russia...
...last (circ. 6,700) in a field of 13 dailies. A decade later it was out in front to stay (it now has over 800,000 a day). McLean put it there by giving Philadelphians what they seemed to want: all the news (no matter how trivial), sold in good time and told in good taste. Lest his Bulletin track mud into the neat row houses where it was a daily guest, he forbade it to muckrake. When the syndicated comic-strippers took to stripping their girls, he had his art room paint their clothes right back...
Menotti, whose music is also his living, learned a lesson. Last week in Manhattan he staged the world premiere of his third and latest chamber opera, The Telephone-a trivial, tuneful skit-to-music. He paired it with his last year's hit, The Medium, and together they have already brought him offers of a touring road company and a Broadway showing...
...little doubt that the logical implication of state control of ideas creates a monumental danger to free worship. If a contemporary example is necessary after centuries of lessons, the picture of political interference at the University of Texas applied on a smaller scale, and inserted through the seemingly trivial entering wedge of tax rebates ought to be enough to terrify defenders of any linkage between state authority and Church schools. The Supreme Court is still to be convinced that religious convictions can be best cultivated in the untaxed confines of the individual conscience...