Word: trivializing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inane lecture, I realized, with increasing dismay and anger, that this was it. Harvard: a professor mumbling about arcane and vapid subjects, in love with the sound of his own voice, while I sat resentfully, one of hundreds. In sections, wan-looking graduate students droned on and on about trivial points in lectures while pathetically overeager students fell over each other to answer stupid questions. My knowledgeable proctor had screwed up again--he hadn't warned me that huge survey courses are probably the least challenging and most poorly taught classes at Harvard. I felt academically betrayed...
HISTORICALLY this film is significant not merely in the context of Allen's own career, but also as one which marks a substantial advance in American film comedy (which, for a long time, has been epitomized by trivial burlesques such as those by Mel Brooks). In an even broader sense, Manhattan stands as a cinematic achievement which successfully integrates authentic environment with narratives structure. As a film about New York, it represents an artistic contribution to a distinguished group of films, from von Sternberg's 1928 The Docks of New York, to Scorsese's 1977 New York, New York...
Those on the national scene who support the legislation echo Ylvisaker's call for increased coordination and coherence in educational policy. Elizabeth Abramowitz, the White House's chief lobbyist for the proposal, says educational decision-makers are buried in bureaucracy. "It may sound trivial on the face of it," Abramowitz explains, "but the Secretary of Labor, for example, may never consult with the Commissioner of Education because he (the Commissioner) is five levels below...
...tough with the unions are another potential minefield. Admittedly, British trade unions are inflexible and old-fashioned. So is British management. It is at least arguable that management's perpetuation of a "Them and Us" syndrome through a whole host of class-based divisions--ranging from the most trivial policies like separate eating places for management and labor, to a refusal to allow any German-style worker-director or incentive-involvement schemes--is largely responsible for Britain's appalling labor relations, and not the so-called leftist shop stewards that the Tory press loves to attack. If the Tories...
...Such trivial bothers aside, Woody Allen seems content these days. Or at least as content as he can be. Rather uncharacteristically, he even seems tentatively pleased with his own work. "I wanted to make a film that was more serious than Annie Hall, a serious picture that had laughs in it," he says. "I felt decent about Manhattan at the time I did it; it does go farther than Annie Hall. But 1 think now I could do better. Of course, if my film makes one more person feel miserable, I'll feel I've done...