Word: casaubon
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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...
Genial company, these assiduous scribblers, but also cloying. For these three novelists are remembered with increasing frequency not for the devastating brilliance of the center of their social vision, but for the treacly smearings around the edges. (Who, for instance can remember Mr. Casaubon, but who can ever forget Dorothea or Will Ladislaw?) Mr. Wilson's own vision is unfailingly clear, his thought unswervingly honest, two facts which make him the most important writer in Britain today. Yet--obscured by his proclaimed Olympian associations--his first three novels have brought him the lukewarm and standardized praise dished out to Trollopian...