Word: overshadowed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...economy gets tighter and standards get more meritocratic, Harvard becomes a more and more competitive and goal-oriented place, a place where success, or the appearance of success, can easily overshadow the means by which success is accomplished...
...streets thronged with police rounding up all Jews? Furthermore, the couple's growing intimacy is treated with tasteless, cliche sentimentality. Dramatic love scenes in dark hallways, passionate signs and sweeping camera movements substitute for emotional insight; the lovers' frantic attempt to escape the police and their eventual parting gradually overshadow the deportation, as the film degenerates into melodrama...
Woodside is not a media-star, and he fears that his reputation will overshadow and inhibit Vietnamese studies by discouraging challenges of his views. As the Thieu regime crumbled this April, he patiently answered dozens of phone calls from journalists who wanted his analysis, but he did nothing to exploit the flurry of attention. Instead, he has continued his studies of East Asian history, quietly and steadily, as oblivious to political timeliness as he was in 1963, when he "discovered" Vietnam...
...focus of public concern has shifted from inflation to recession. Asked which they fear more, 52% of those surveyed said recession and 42% said inflation-almost an exact reversal of the figures tabulated three months ago. The reason seems to be that fear of unemployment has come to overshadow public concern about inflation's effects on savings and food, which peaked last fall and have actually declined since. This was shown when people were asked whether they worry a lot about the following...
Jean Cocteau led such a fiamboyant life that it tended to overshadow his work. In love with a young motorcyclist at one time he used to follow him around in his chauffeur-driver limousine and vomit each time the led made a dangerous turn, to the delights of meansprited Parisians Orpheus is probably the most theatrically successful of this unsavory man's unusual ouevre. At the Ex, tonight, tomorrow, and Saturday (as well as next weekend...