Word: detract
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...color continues to spread, even the relatively colorless New York papers may be forced to join in the parade. All, that is, but one. "We pride ourselves on the appearance of our paper, and we don't want to detract from it," says a spokesman for the paper that will presumably remain the good, grey New York Times...
...barely able to carry on. Indeed, long after it should have known better, part of the U.S. press had been describing Ike in similar terms. The dismal picture of President Eisenhower had its basis in the three major illnesses he suffered in three successive years, illnesses that could only detract from his energies and subtract from his performances. But the image of the sick and dispirited Eisenhower lingered on long after the reality of dramatic recovery...
...author's delight in being oracular does not detract much from a clever investigation into mysticism and the mystique of power. The ironic Artist Tutmose-whose hauntingly beautiful head of Nefertiti is on view in West Berlin's Dahlem Museum-solves only part of the puzzle when, near the book's end, he concludes that "beyond our own motives, existence has no reason." Perhaps, Stacton seems to be saying, the puzzle of existence constitutes its own reason...
...concentration on the tragedy of it all, its insistence on showing Julien to be a maligned martyr, takes all the sharpness from the story; the movie-made transformation of Julien into a hero of almost homeric proportion destroys Stendahl's original theme. Even Danielle Darrieux's fine acting cannot detract from the fact that The Red and The Black is not meant to be a colossal soap opera...
...folk music: "I used to be wild about folk songs, but now, after ten years of listening to them, I'm a little less wild. Folk music is like all good things; it attracts people who are pretentious and affectacious, but that doesn't detract from the songs themselves...