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Time magazine said " the script, on the whole, is the weakest element of the picture, but scriptwriter Inge can hardly be blamed for it " since it had been " heavily edited " by Kazan ; he called the film a " relatively simple story of adolescent love and frustration " that has been " jargoned-up and chaptered-out till it sounds like an angry psychosociological monograph describing the sexual mores of the heartless heartland.