Word: detract
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...school man. The quality of their contributions is certainly more than high enough to explain, if not to excuse their inclusion, But an undergraduate magazine should devote its space to undergraduate expression, and these men have many other journals open to their work. These-reflections, however, should not detract from the magazine's interest...
Perhaps with better direction the picture might move faster. But the airy touch which one usually associates with French direction is entirely absent, and the plot is allowed to sag of its own weight. The acting, though not exceptional does not detract too much from the quality of the film. Lillian Harvey, as the English girl with whom Schubert falls in love, manages to carry off a difficult role with considerable understanding. But she is not enough to save the picture from being a slow, slightly tuneful attempt to capitalize on the fact that Schubert was a great composer...
Apparently nervous over the fact that Carroll's balding head, which gives him the look of a village deacon, might detract from the glamor to be associated with a dashing entrepreneur of naked floor shows, Paramount suggested that Carroll wear a wig in the picture. Carroll refused, explained: "A bald-headed boulevardier has more appeal for women than any clumsy youngster, no matter how well covered is his scalp...
...369th was a fine outfit, and I do not wish to detract from its record, which was outstanding. I was a Company Commander in the 371st Infantry made up of drafted Negroes from the South. I respectfully challenge your statement that: "With one exception their battlefield record [negro combat units] was not so good. Exception was Harlem's 369th...
...Suritz Non Grata. Nonfiction, but in some spots very tantalizing melodrama, was the affaire Suritz, which did nothing to detract from Allied-Russian tension. Since 1919 bulging, bearded Jacob Suritz has been No. 1 Soviet diplomat, with a brilliant record in Afghanistan, Turkey, Germany and League of Nations wrangles. He was for years the only Jew in Germany permitted to keep Aryan housemaids -by personal dispensation of the Führer. Ambassador Suritz was not "purged" when his intimate friend Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff fell from Joseph Stalin's favor, but few Bolsheviks close to a fallen bigwig survive...