Word: detract
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...Linus Pauling and I are on opposite sides regarding the nuclear tests, but this does not detract from our respect for each other. I am enraged by your footnote re him. It is in keeping with McCarthyism...
...present organization--effectively a potential big-business concern hiding behind illegitimate academic immunities--can only arouse the anger of Cambridge merchants, detract from the freedom of undergraduate enterprise, and perhaps endanger the tax status of the University...
...motivation is made clearer. But it is the figure of Stanislaw that holds the book together, and in him Bankowsky has created a near-tragic embodiment of guilt. The flaws in this novel-occasional sentimentalism, and a needlessly interjected chapter set a generation in the future-do not detract from its great, raw impact...
...none of the above should detract too much from Seeger's considerable artistry. He has a poor voice and poorer diction, but neither failing seems to bother him, and if it bothers his listeners they can go elsewhere. He has in his favor a completely ingratiating manner--which natuarally comes across better in person--and tremendous skill with banjo and guitar. This ability is heard to best advantage on dance tunes like Old Dan Tucker and The Blue Tailed...
Unfortunately, there are other incidental characters scattered about for various reasons, and some of them detract considerably from the fun. George Cole is unnecessarily tedious as a naive vacuum cleaner salesman, and Jill Adams's prettiness does not hide her bland acting as a bride-to-be with whom Cole gets entangled under...