Word: distractive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Instead, historical novels tend to entertain, distract, and pander to escapist tendencies. Certainly Vidal is a good enough writer to produce generally competent work, and when Vidal chooses to write an historical novel, he is likely to write a good one. But there is no reason to expect him to transcend the boundaries of the field...
...lawyers, Agnew said, advised him that a legal battle over the charges facing him could drag on for years. He said he feared that "intense media interest in the case would distract public attention from other matters of public importance...
...Army Gen. Hugh B. Hester, ret., has said that ROTC is self-defeating because, in anything, ROTC programs distract students from more useful study in regular Arts and Sciences courses. Because of their rank and because of time wasted on ROTC courses of little value, ROTC graduates, Hester wrote this summer, often prove more difficult to train in complex technical skills than do regular college graduates new to the military...
Belgrade, expecting an invasion of 40,000 emotional Italians and 10,000 partisan Dutchmen, is taking no chances for the European Cup final. To help distract the fans after the game, the Belgrade city council has ordered shops and restaurants on the main streets to stay open all night. In addition, virtually the entire police force of the Republic of Serbia will be on duty, trying to keep the peace. Still, Yugoslav authorities are happy to host the game...
...doubt but that the intentions are good. But intentions alone don't make a good story. Happily Richmond has done one or two interesting things that distract from the conspicuous banality of his prose. Midway through his narrative he includes an account of Joshua Aarons, a Victorian renegade who joined the Gold Rush, decamped to the Indians, and burrowed into a cave, leaving his diary of reminiscences and prophecies as testimony to the historicity of counterculture. Historicity or no, Joshua Aarons lends the author an opportunity to affect a Victorian prose style, demonstrating that Richmond can in fact do more...