Word: detracting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...numerous small faults mar the efforts of a hard-working cast. Poor lighting arrangements leave a third of the stage dark, costumes clash violently with upholstery, and a supposedly "meditative" character walks on stage with the "Reader's Digest" in one hand. Such incongruities detract continually from a comedy which otherwise would carry its audience along without pause...
...only cheering aspect of the fray since Irv Rudman, Sophomore curveballer, showed plenty of tricky stuff, in addition to some control and general mount savvy unusual for a first year man. The fact that the Hub team managed to work the Crimson moundsman for five runs does not detract much from a very creditable performance, since he allowed only six hits...
...heavies after them. Hope wants none of this-he just wants to get to Hollywood with his penguin Percy-but the director manages to keep them together without the old standby of handcuffing them. If the chase motif seems a somewhat contrived means of doing this, it doesn't detract much from the picture because Hope keeps up a steady patter of wisecracks and facial expressions which make the action incidental...
...contributions of William Carlos Williams, Djuna Barnes, and Horace Gregory are less than shamefully insignificant. Marya Zaturenska's "Organ, Harp, and Violin," a palpable parroting of Dryden's "song for St. Cecilia's Day," combines with a host of insignificantly obscure poetry to bewilder the reader and to detract from the worthwhile portions of the issue...
This difficult and ugly story packs a considerable wallop-thanks to the shrewd direction of Sam Wood and effective performances by his cast. Its ending, though overdramatic, does not detract from the atmosphere, mood and genuinely compassionate portrayal of life in a U.S. small town of not so long...