Word: catchup
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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...Uris even retains Hersey's slow device of telling whole sections of the story in the form of journal entries from the diary of a garrulous, intellectual archivist. If the color tone of Hersey's book was documentary grey, the hue of Uris' novel is stage catchup, the kind of theatricality that demeans the suffering that the book is meant to dignify...
...last reel, the lead flies and the catchup spectacularly splatters...