Word: sentimenality
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Lampell gets no leverage into language; his words do not heighten or deepen or darken, are never laconic or poetic or terrible. Rather than quivering with a Whitmanesque "I am the man, I suffer'd, I was there." Lampell's lines come all too close to the sentimen tal and the stagy. The Wall is most effective-is indeed very effective-where it is most documentary, in brutal public scenes between Jews and Nazis. A rabbi doing a little ritual dance with a bride somehow evokes more than occurrences that freeze the blood...
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