Word: detrimental
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like Norman Mailer, Goodman has chosen to become a personality as well as a writer. Unlike Mailer, he has not concentrated on this sideline to the detriment of his creative work. Goodman continues to produce books of dissent which have enormous social value for America...
...setback to national prestige. The Olympic Games, formerly an event for friendly athletic competition, have thus been recognized by the U.S. government as an appropriate test of the advantages of capitalism and communism. This has long been the opinion of numerous misled sports writers and individuals, much to the detriment of the games. Government interference will detract still further from the purposes of the games, perhaps to the extent of destroying them as sporting events...
...River Kwai, Guinness makes Colonel Jock Sinclair a three-dimensional personality seldom found in portrayals of a standard sort of crude-but-lovable Highland officer. In Kwai, Sir Alec had to be inflexible to the point of personal sacrifice, but as Sinclair he must be selfish to the detriment of all that he loves. The Colonel claims to love his battalion, yet be lets personal spite bring dissention, disgrace, and finally tragedy down upon it; he pronounces his affection for his daughter (Susannah York), yet he treats her as a propitiation for his own sins, and when she transgresses...
...cost of losing the "long-needed tax reform" that the President promised for next year in both corporate and personal income taxes. Said Hotelman Conrad Hilton: "For many years, our tax structure has been based on social objectives rather than on economic objectives, to the detriment of business activity and employment." Most businessmen recognized that to ram through reform, Kennedy would have to have benefits to confer to make up for the reductions in tax write-offs and tightening of tax loopholes. Drawled R. P. Baxter, president of the Rio Grande National Life Insurance Co.: "I think President Kennedy wants...
...nobility; and it is quite in keeping with his character that he punctuates his talk by garbling an irrelevant Latin proverb (not in the text). Since the croupe has four men and four women, Dandin's sleepy valet Colin has been turned into a maidservant, Collette, with no detriment, thanks to Karen Lee Monko...