Word: trivializes
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...spirit unoppressed by the playwright's reputation. Sometimes the humor is even flavored with slapstick, as in the case of Egon Brecher's Sir Toby Belch, who does. Yet so airily do the players carry off the Shakespearean fancies that the audience readily forgives trivial irreverence avows Twelfth Night...
...like are evidently written by somebodies or nobodies who are anxious to get in the spotlight by using belittling descriptions, large and unfamiliar words, and other such silly devices. There are some good points in the magazine, also some excellent pieces of writing in spots, but the trivial and inconsequential are dwelt upon at such great length that they leave a bad taste. I do not have a great deal of time for reading and prefer to devote that time to magazines on the order of World's Work, Golden Book and the National Geographic, in which one receives...
...students. His own distrust is the starting point of a vicious circle. From his distrust arises the paternalistic system of college government. From the paternalistic system there comes the postponement of important decisions by the student. From this postponement of important decisions there follows immaturity, irresponsibility and preoccupation with trivial rather than important issues. I firmly believe that if the American college will adopt a different attitude toward the student this circle will be reversed. Adopt the attitude of trust and the faculty will become colleagues rather than governors of the students. Faced with the necessity of governing their...
...ever the proper time for such action can be conceived of now is that time. While both colleges are laying their cards upon the table, are striving to clear the atmosphere of trivial, though insinuating misunderstandings, some definite attempt at an analysis of the situation by accredited representatives of both student bodies and an attempt by them to offer remedial suggestions based on such an analysis should be made. Thus the necessary conclusion to the tempest which has leeward over this last weekend must be defined as the appointment of a committee by the Princeton Senior Council and the Harvard...
Such demonstrations of poor taste are never taken at their real value. That is asking too much of human nature. And it is just such trivial breaches of common sense, not to mention fact, which make the spirit of the Harvard-Princeton game that of a prize fight. It is just such follies which lay the basis for intense animosity to send teams battered from the field and undergraduates in to war dances of victory...