Word: sabinson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quick to pan Simon in return: "The Count Dracula of critics!" (Andrew Sarris, the Village Voice); "The Transylvanian vampire!" (Robert Brustein. Yale Drama School); "Personally offensive!" (Brendan Gill, The New Yorker). Many of Simon's critics, however, would not dispute his immense erudition and frequent fairness. Says Harvey Sabinson, a director of the league that banned him: "He's an extraordinarily brilliant man when he sticks to basic matters. Personal attacks are his failing...