Word: detracts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kindly Light. Wieland is sure he is on the right track. He keeps the lighting dim partly to avoid any need for elaborate sets, partly out of respect for Richard Wagner's scores. "Grandfather did not want characters clearly seen because it would detract from concentration on the music." He believes that fussy old sets and sticky pathos make grandfather ridiculous to too many mid-century men. "We must go forward...
...played last night. His motions look like a synthesis of Bernstein, Koussevitzky, and Munch. These mannerisms are often annoying in the original, but in the imitation they seem ludicrous. Furthermore, his beat lacks clarity, and as a result, there were many sloppy entrances. But these criticisms do not detract from his spectacular job of orchestra training...
...Dartmouth newspaper sympathized with the letter in the Princetonian, but added by way of comment that the two men from New Jersey should take a "maturity test" themselves. Starting from a score of 100, they should detract ten points for every time they feel "a twinge of self-pity or erotic desire . . . Sixty is not passing," the paper added...
Whitney's disregard of alumni status would detract from reports that Endicott "Chub" Peabody '41, Harvard's last All-American, was a strong candidate for the vacant Directorship. Peabody was prominently mentioned by the old-guard group who believed that the job should be kept in the Harvard family. He is a member of the Whitney committee...
...recent years (Generation of Vipers, An Essay on Morals, Opus 21), The Disappearance has as many flaws as a pot-holed road, as many undigested scraps of thought as a Quiz Kids' program. But even the grotesqueness of the fantasy, and the gaps and snags, do not seriously detract from the book's underlying warmth of heart and crusading fervor. With the aid of a monstrous trick, Author Wylie again lays a stubby forefinger on his favorite theme-the relation of the sexes-and succeeds, at last, in discussing the matter in what, for him at least...