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Word: casaubon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sarris manages any role well, it's a clumsy one--the scholarly tough who's given his all to the art he studies while the world goes on uncaring. A Casaubon with balls. In a recent Partisan Review symposium on Culture and Conservation, Sarris spoke, he said, as a humble representative of film art, and after dreary argumentation, summed up his personal attitude...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Decline and Fall of a Film-Watcher | 11/22/1972 | See Source »

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