Word: everydayish
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Tragic Chaplin. Despite the extremity of the situation, much that happens is very everydayish, which actually enhances the play's humanity. The camp's commandant worries about the production quota: if it goes up, he gets a promotion; if it goes down, he faces ignominy or worse. The camp's doctor is busy assembling a harem of pseudo nurses. The camp's foundrymen are lured on to melt bronze by the promise of a bonus. They are cheated out of it. A doomed love blooms like a flower held in the outthrust hand of a tragic...
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