Word: detracted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...real father, because he was of Danish ancestry and grew up in Germany, and because he became a permanent expatriate, traveling first to Austria and then to the U.S., he is obviously acutely conscious of the needs and difficulties involved in forging an identity. But this does not detract from the general usefulness of Erickson's theory and can only add to its eloquence...
...this anomaly; Hitchcock always works best with a script that offers a wide variety of settings and locations that allow his prodigious imagination its rein. And there is, after all, only so so you can do with the interior of a railway car. All of which does not detract from the film's credentials as a bona fide Hitchcock. In fact, viewers who encounter difficulties with the implicit morbidity and amorality that mark some of the Master's works will find this glib comedy-thriller a welcome relief. Dame May Whitty plays the title role of the innocuous old lady...
...recently. Harvard administrators also dismiss the union's argument that the reduced fringe benefits will discourage future employment by noting that the union's own rules--which require all new officers to work night shifts and other undesirable hours for several years before attaining seniority--go much further to detract from the force's desirability...
...justify to some students the motives behind his perpetual pursuit of the presidency. Philip Warburg '79 said yesterday he came to the reading with a "cynical" attitude toward McCarthy. Warburg said he viewed the Senator's decision to run in 1976 as an "irresponsible gesture," because his candidacy would detract from Jimmy Carter's electoral support...
Vorenberg, who will remain master of Dunster House, said yesterday the time he will spend advising the committee will not detract from his time teaching. "This is by no means a full-time position; it has a very limited time commitment," he said...