Word: trivializes
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...feared that fields of concentration are sometimes chosen on even more trivial and irrational grounds. Dislike of an assistant in an introductory course; unwillingness to let laboratory work interfere with exercise; a silly tendency to run where the biggest crowd seems to be gathering, or to suppose that if no one from your school is concentrating in a given department it cannot amount to much,--these are only a few of the bad reasons. Everybody admits that they are bad reasons, of course, but nevertheless they do, I fear, influence decisions...
These are the trivial faults, if indeed they can be called such, but all are inconspicuous enough in the sum total of the play. Molnar begins with satire, becomes interested in his characters, and then adds the inevitable conclusion. Whatever his mood, he is always graceful, always deft, and almost always sincere...
...live within the confines of the University and the parietal regulations for years without really knowing the students, the professors or the well-worn grooves in which they both conduct their separate existences. Just when one begins to think he knows something about the place, along comes a trivial incident to upset his conceit and make him marvel anew as on the first day of his arrival in Cambridge...
...department, and was relieved to hear that it had already been changed two years ago. They are prone to make rather imposing mountains out of molehills; to orget that many of the criticisms by which they are disturbed offset each other: and to be upset by all sorts of trivial; personal annoyances. And while the graduates are in this state of mind, at is perhaps natural that the administration in its turn should be sometimes a little irritable, a little touchy and abrupt. It is primarily a case of nerves on both sides. A little diplomatic oil here and there...
SILENCE?Starts in a death house, jumps back to the murder, evades the electric chair. H. B. Warner and a tense, if trivial, melodrama...