Word: trivializing
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...said. “We’re going to have clean fun: no alcohol and no seven minutes in the closet.” The night started out casually—the Mather House Council provided popcorn, candy and hot chocolate. A group of students played Trivial Pursuit in the back of the dining hall. And at midnight, the council paid for taxis to shuttle students to IHOP. Alas, no students actually slept over in the dining hall, but Jones said that hadn’t been the intention. “After people went to IHOP, they went...
...novel that is a fascinating and hilarious sketch of his time in the country. Delisle admits that he didn't see anything the government didn't want him to see. But from what he was allowed to witness, he strings together a series of remarkable scenes. Many are seemingly trivial-a hotel worker slowly crushing a fly underfoot, a propaganda truck blaring encouragement to construction workers-but when seen through the keen eye of a man who spent his workdays pondering the facial expressions of animated bears, they give rare insight into life beyond...
There is, of course, always the option to freak them out. You could start yelling obscenities from the bathroom. You could start a game of “Trivial Pursuit: Genius Edition.” Or, better yet, strip down naked and hope they’ll run away...
...untrue or hypothetical can withstand trial, cannot get the best of you, and folly is permitted. In the spirit of imagination, then, of Wonka-esque creative rendering, permit me this brief flight of fancy: Miles and I are seated at the Scrabble board, prepared to engage in this trivial pursuit, and the competitive juices start flowing like it’s the 1997 NCAA Final Four all over again. He draws the better tile and gets to go first, running “magic” off the center square to the right. With a double letter score...
HUDS’ adjustments are not merely a trivial change of focus. In developing the Food Literacy Project, officials from HUDS consulted Chairman of the Department of Nutrition Walter C. Willett at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). Willett emphasizes a heightened concern over saturated fat, instead of total fat, and amount of fiber intake. In keeping with these findings, the HUDS menu planners added whole grain pasta as a daily lunch item last spring. Additionally, the Food Literacy Project is currently modifying the six identifiers on menu cards in dining halls, replacing “percentage of calories...