Word: trivializing
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Monday they rose and went to work again, wondering whether the campaign would be Blitz or a steady advance. But the Nazi censorship had decided that the people should have no news. The radio trumpets blasted patriotic airs, but the newscasts, like the newspaper columns, were trivial. For three days the German people were ignorant. Then they learned that it had been Blitz. The troops were in Salonika. In the newsreels the people saw not only practice maneuvers in Bulgaria, but Stukas screaming down on the Greeks, dusty Nazi soldiers napping in the grass beside Yugoslav roads...
Charging that "budgetary necessities" cannot completely justify the dismissal of the two men, Lawrence Lader '41 stated in his report that the difference in salaries between assistant and associate professors is trivial, and that thus Potter and Houghton could be promoted with practically no change in the budget...
...hard to see what justification there can be for this policy, No one denies that the issues raised at such meetings are controversial, for all political and economic questions in so far as they are not trivial are necessary controversial. But open controversy is not a subtle poison from which the untutored public should be protected. On the contrary, the widest possible dissemination of conflicting viewpoints, together with all available accurate information, is a prerequisite for the growth of enlightened public opinion. Harvard can provide that prerequisite and it is is its duty as a democratic institution...
...declared as constitutional every act passed by Congress in the World War that tended to limit civil liberties. One of the phenomena of the World War was the development of a private spy, government sanctioned organization, called the American Protective League, which caused the arrest of many persons on trivial charges. This League had a membership of 200,000 members, he said...
...more worth bothering about than the Mahler Symphony, although the fact that its melodies are weaker, less distinguished, and less surehanded than those of the later symphonies will probably cause its rejection. But in no way does it merit Cui's contemptuous epithets of "rough and commonplace. . . . pompous and trivial . . . neither good nor bad." It is fun to listen to, and that is more than can be said for a good deal of the stuff that is perpetrated in concert-halls today...