Word: trivializing
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Long Unsuspected. For virtually every human being outside the womb, rubella is a trivial complaint. It usually causes a mild fever, a fleeting rash, a slight headache, occasionally a cough and a sore throat. Some cases are so mild that they pass unnoticed, yet all apparently confer lifelong immunity. Unlike mumps and common measles, rubella seldom evokes severe ill ness in the 20% of people who escape it in childhood and catch it as adults...
...drunks, the loafers-to recognize in him their kindred spirit. He has not even been able to fail grandly. The one rebel he has deliciously identified with, a protégé who once ran away with the canon's silver, has ended up by becoming a trivial middle-aged success in America...
...choose? The way this college affects most of its students is very indirect, ideological, non-material. A film about Harvard's concrete, material effects, though a fine political documentary, would be irrelevant to our personal experience. On the other hand, our experience of Harvard depends so much on trivial incidents, details of personal style, facades, momentary impressions about people and situations that creating a coherent plot and characters is very difficult. Most student films fail, and end up extremely subjective...
Nashville Skyline, by contrast, has no tragedy and no drama. The poetry is damp and the songs essentially trivial. There really is not way of getting around it. Dylan seems too happy to be able to create masterpieces and one is glad only for his sake. There will be more records in the future, no doubt, but will they not be like Nashville Skyline, pleasant an perfect but low-level? And to think I almost didn't believe once the old saw that artists have to suffer or they're not artists...
...envied, and she excelled enough to be honored." Athletics were her particular forte. Swimming, skiing, horsemanship?Ethel won competitions in them all, though she doesn't much like to talk about it now. "They were all country-club teams," she says, "and that sounds so trivial in this...