Word: beclouds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Worthy denied all of Mr. Cartwright's allegations, while admitting that a Boston draft board had classified him as a conscientious objector in 1943. He charged the State Department with "trying to becloud the issue of freedom of movement and freedom of the press by raising an irrelevant matter...
...quite true. Based on a book written by Air Marshall Sir Victor Goddard, the story recounts an incident which actually happened. This fact is never mentioned in the film, although it gives the story more meaning than all the spurious philosophical conversations manage to contribute. They only becloud and reduce the picture to a mildly successful thriller...
...nothing. He was father confessor to scores of Harvard students who, he thought, had a sincere desire to be writers. But when it came to sham-either academic or political-he could be merciless. Occasionally, his reputation for sounding off on everything, whether big or small, tended to becloud his reputation as a serious scholar...
...however, they evince a curious disquietude at the series of Boston Post articles by John Fox on the same subject using a great deal more lineage than would be required for my rejected "defense" in order to express their concern. And they becloud the issue by dragging in phrases like "McCarthyism," "The Chicago Tribune of the East Coast," "Kremlin Newspapers in Hub Library," "The Harvard Study of Russia. . ." and name like McCarran, Hoyt, McCormick, Conant and others. Further, they talk all around the subject without attempting in any way, shape or manner to answer Mr. Fox's articles...
Without Technicolor, Moulin Rouge could have been an excellent film. But the glittering colors becloud rather than claborate its sensitive pathos...