Word: operaish
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Dates: during 1964-1964
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...book, in need of much revision, does little more than bridge the gaps between the numbers--and it does so in the self-conscious, soap-operaish tones of daytime television. Joe's final realization, "I wasn't good enough to be a sparrow; I wanted to be an eagle," seemingly comes right out of the air and is, quiet literally, for the birds. The dialogue skips from cliches to abstract expressions of feeling so quickly and glibly that it neither convinces nor involves us. It only approximates emotion. The book neither unites the songs, nor equals their hard-hitting exactness...
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