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From: The Village Voice
Date: 19961001
Author:Feingold, Michael

It's okay to hate James M. Barrie; the one thing you can't do is deny his entire and perfect success. In his own time he was loved for the more nakedly kitschy pieces of sentimentThe Little Minister, Quality Street-that we shrink from as we would from food labeled "100% pure cholesterol" Barrie loved sentiment, and never hesitated to shovel it on, for an era that often went to the theater just to wallow in it; he also loved to decorate it with the ornate coyness that separated genteel middle-class sentiment from the more robust proletarian kind.

That's the Barrie we ignore; the one who still ...

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