Anchor: To those who love the great American standards, Merrill is the man who single-handedly produced the worst songs of the decade and so debauched the currency of mainstream Tin Pan Alley that it had no moral authority to resist rock 'n' roll.
Entailed: Merrill made a lot of terrible songs.
Contradiction: Merrill made a lot of great songs.
Contradiction: You need to work and forget about the theatre.
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Contradiction: The theories worked in New York.
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