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"text": "1973 April 8, Philip Zimbardo, W. Curtis Banks, Craig Haney, David Jaffe, “The mind is a formidable jailer: A Pirandellian prison”, in The New York Times Magazine, section 6, page 36:",
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"sense": "characteristic of the works of Luigi Pirandello",
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"sense": "characteristic of the works of Luigi Pirandello",
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"sense": "characteristic of the works of Luigi Pirandello",
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"sense": "characteristic of the works of Luigi Pirandello",
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"sense": "characteristic of the works of Luigi Pirandello",
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"sense": "characteristic of the works of Luigi Pirandello",
"word": "pirandellianisch"
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"sense": "characteristic of the works of Luigi Pirandello",
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"sense": "characteristic of the works of Luigi Pirandello",
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"sense": "characteristic of the works of Luigi Pirandello",
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"sense": "characteristic of the works of Luigi Pirandello",
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"sense": "characteristic of the works of Luigi Pirandello",
"word": "pirandeliano"
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"roman": "pirandéllovskij",
"sense": "characteristic of the works of Luigi Pirandello",
"word": "пиранде́лловский"
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"word": "пиранделовскӣ"
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