Word: detract
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...verbal effect and throughout the evening there are constant reminders that this is Hemingway speaking, he of the fresh, young, modern, American prose style. His dialogue is excellent in many sections of the play. But it frequently becomes obtrusive, thereby ending its usefulness and going so far as to detract from the play itself. Here is a case where conscious striving for effect has killed the effect itself...
...would not detract from the deserving credit which is due Queen Marie and John and Vintila Bratianu but King Ferdinand was in fact King. He ruled as well as reigned. He was less dramatic than the Queen. He was less in the public eye than the Bratianus. But he was by accepted tests a farseeing and enlightened monarch...
These considerations, however, do not detract from the advances that have been made. The House Masters are to be congratulated for their acceptance of these plans; and the Council, for suggesting them in its report. There can be no doubt that Harvard will benefit tremendously from yesterday's decision...
Neither does the Corporation's rejection of responsibility detract from its recognition of the need for America to demonstrate tolerance for those being persecuted abroad. It has in effect applauded the humanitarian ideal of the Undergraduate Committee, and this must be remembered when in the future the occasion arises to defend Harvard liberalism. The number of the scholarships appears to be sensible; it approves assistance without basing assistance on an impractical and overemotional scheme; it condemns the Nazis with caution. Moreover, it points the course for other colleges in this country to pursue. For a widespread assertion of our faith...
...lighting effects, but Burt Kelsey's grouping of the actors on various stage levels to display the proper subordination of characters is excellent. A blatant loudspeaker, an overdose of fire and brimstone, insecure craftsmanship in the delivery of certain vital lines, and a lack of restraint in the comedy detract somewhat from the performances of Glenn Wilson as Faust and Basil Burwell as Mephistopheles, but Faust's struggle between his better self and his lost for power is nonetheless arresting...