Word: hackwork
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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...that it is that for only a fraction of the evening. The rest of the time it is a variety of other routine things-routine Intourist comedy, routine U.S.S.R. satire, routine romance, routine sentiment. The authors have fitted their occasional thoughtfulness and sense of balance inside a framework of hackwork so that the play, in the end, has no more sustained topical value than theatrical impact...