Word: cruder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Schoolmaster Taussig" is an early story of Neumann's, a grim naturalistic sex tragedy considerably more effective than "King Haber", though much cruder and more exaggerated. "The Patriot", familiar to movie fans as one of Emil Jannings best pictures, stands out as the most skillfully handled and the most appealing of the three stories. The gradual development of the conspiracy against the mad Czar Paul, the struggles of Count Pahlen against external opposition and against his self-accusations of ungratefulness, are told with careful objectivity, yet with a much finer dramatic sense than appeared in "King Haber". "The Patriot...