Word: trivially
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Life at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue was like that. Nothing was too trivial for Jack Kennedy to give it at least momentary attention. He could discuss affairs of state with Canada's visiting Prime Minister Diefenbaker (see THE HEMISPHERE) or Australia's Prime Minister Robert Menzies, and then reflect on the future of Dwight Eisenhower's putting green on the White House lawn ("I plan to use it.. You forget I'm a pretty good golfer...
...intricate workings of cause and effect, there come moments in every life when great consequences hang in shaky balance, to be tipped by a tiny mischance, a trivial decision. A man misses a train by half a minute, wanders into a bookstore while waiting for the next train, and picks up a book that might alter his life forever. Another, taking a walk in the country, comes to a fork in the lane, hesitates, chooses the left turn rather than the right, and meets the girl he will marry. Afterward, men often look back upon such events and call them...
...trivial loss, nor trivial Gain despise; Molehills, if often heap'd, to mountains rise...
Second, Kennedy, in making his massive entrance into the television business, faces the familiar risk of "over-exposure." Constant appearance by the President discussing trivial issues (as a weekly press conference is bound frequently to do) will detract seriously from those occasions when he has something important (and prepared) to say to the nation. Any device can be weakened by overuse, and the Kennedy television fireside should appear only when there is some real reason...
...Call It Trivial." Where the pundits of the press have long underscored the importance of ideas and idealism in U.S. Government, now they praised Kennedy for his grasp of parochial politics. Glowed Columnist Doris Fleeson: "Kennedy is yielding every minor point to Vice President-elect Johnson and the Rayburri-Mansfield leadership of Congress as the New Frontiers approach. His apparent strategy is to give them enough rope, which is the classic maneuver of power politics. They are being consulted and shown every deference." Wrote the New York Post's liberal Columnist Max Lerner: "Call it a trivial item...