Word: detracting
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...Congress freed him from guys like McCarthy and Jenner. who had the executive branch in their hip pockets. We have the fact that his Administration has slipped on things like Dixon-Yates, Talbott, and so on. These facts are enough to work on. They're enough because they detract seriously from the very things-his talents for appearing folksy, homey and highly moral-that are supposed to make Eisenhower so strong...
...Aaron, of course, shares in the honor of the night. In mitigation of the poor scenery and lighting, by John Ratte and Jordan Jelks, respectively, the facilities at Peabody are miserable and The Seagull calls for complications in both lines. As already pointed out none of these defects radically detract from a pleasant evening of good theatre...
Richard S. Dolins '55, Lowell House Dance Chairman, was skeptical of the plan, saying that "it will detract from the dignity of the dance to have stags. However, if there aren't too many, it ought to be an interesting little situation...
...Connor's prose is most interesting. Sometimes it seems to hover between a clinched thought and a profundity, and then lights invariably on the latter's side. There are many trite lines in his exposition, but he uses them to advantage, and they seem to enhance rather than detract from a description. It is unwise to think that he is consciously striving for an idiom, because his range of character cannot be so confined. Perhaps the best that can be said of this prose is that it is intriguing. It is also wonderfully readable...
...wish at any time to detract from the many fine contributions Mr. Hastie has made to the work of the Phillips Brooks House Association. Douglas W. Hunt '55 (PBHA president...