Word: beechum
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Dates: during 1935-1935
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...theatre on the point of babbling oneself. Mr. Caldwell's stylistic devices are, though effective, simple rather than subtle. As in all his earlier books, there are paragraphs in this latest collection which could be broken up into regular metrical lines. Reading aloud the first story, "Candy-Man Beechum," with its rhythms which invite a singsong intonation and its refrain-like repetitions and variations of phrase, one gains much the same impression as from a Vachel Lindsay chant. There is, besides, the method familiar since Hemingway of crowding together important and unimportant things without emphasis or subordination...
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