Word: detract
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...with processionals, swinging censers, and echoing trumpets. Backed by the cavernous marble nave, the play is infused with a sense of the ancient and the divine. Although the beautiful voice and lovely, archaic music are enough to make the program a success, there are faults in the production which detract seriously from its overall effect...
...Your cover story on Jimmy Brown [Nov. 26] is enlightening, incisive, colorful and above all, fair. As painful as it may be for Brown worshipers to admit, Superman is not too super as a person. But this of course does not detract from his athletic greatness. Your writer has come closest yet to putting the finger on what makes Jimmy...
This is not to detract, however, from the power of Curwood's later performance. His blood-curdling reliving of the murder of his mother--given in Dos Passos-like blank verse--was delivered with such intense personal involvement that the description of the knifing itself was almost orgasmic...
These shortcomings did not detract too much from what was generally a good performance, however. And it is good to see the Ex, like the mainstage, running major-league plays; instead of relying--as they both used to--on platys dug out of an obscurity in which they should have remained...
When X rays in the White House basement clinic confirmed the diagnosis, several doctors recommended that the organ be removed. The question was-when? Rather than detract from Pope Paul VI's historic visit to the U.S., Lyndon decided to wait until after...