Word: trivialized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year, Turow says, 2Ls and 3Ls find other sources for the competitiveness that can subtly transform a student. Fresh carrots dangling from the ends of the sticks, but the same old donkeys after them. "People have said to me the competition for jobs makes the competition for grades look trivial," Turow says. "Performance in class is no longer important; it's who made you an offer and flew you down to Washington that becomes the new status, and some people crave it. People will back-bite, and go interview with law firms and say bad things about people they know...
...importance of subject matter is paramount mostly for the choreographer. It is his source, his dream, his love. For the audience it often makes very little difference what a dance is about; in fact, some of the most famous and successful dances in the world have been on trivial and inconsequential subjects. --Doris Humphrey...
Many battered men manage to convince themselves that their marriages are sound and their beatings are trivial. The British social worker Erin Pizzey, founder of a refuge for battered women in London, notes that abused men are so good at self-deception that they often refuse to acknowledge the beatings at all. "Mostly they don't see themselves on the receiving end," she adds, "even though they're scratched and bitten or hit by instruments." In fact, she says, many of the men who show up at her center are originally reported as wife beaters, but turn...
...proven largely unsuccessful. The idea of doing an album comprised of musical reflections on one central idea is a noble one; but all too often, the listener is bludgeoned with the artist's self-proclaimed sensitivity, the connections are strained, and the themes themselves are pretentious or trivial. In the rare instances where concept albums have succeeded (Randy Newman's Good Ole Boys, for example), the songs have seemed like elements of a large orchestral work; the whole has seemed greater than the sum of its parts. Such records are the exception, though. Concept albums generally fail...
...authors, even of the past and often of dubious quality, are hoisted in the national spotlight. We are expected to listen to musicians who are women not because they are brilliant musicians, but because they are women. Women are complicated, men are easy. Women are important, men are trivial...