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Since 1955, the tabloid Voice (circ. 150,000) has earnestly chronicled the peculiarities of New York City life, its iconoclastic eye quick to spot problems of the underdog. Unremittingly quarrelsome, wordy and underedited, the Voice also captures the funky, ingrown perspective of Greenwich Village. Its reviewers, including such first-rate...
None of these reviews--as fuzzyminded as they were--presaged the visciousness of Andrew Sarris in The Village Voice, or the pretentiousness of Eugenia Collier in the Sunday Times two weeks ago. Sarris attacked what he called "UNESCO-inclined critics," proclaiming that those who like Conrack (and other more-or...
Sarris was not as explicitly liberal-dumping as the others. But he did, consider the attitudes of the conservative school superintendent and the Yamacraw principal "realistic:" although what they counsel is the acquiescence of blacks before a racist society. Sarris was more concerned with savaging the do-gooder who confronts...
A pretty good case can be made that these two functions--entertaining reading and personal judgment--are all we really have a right to expect from a critic; that no one buys a publication just to read the film page anyway; and that after you compare your own taste to...
If 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...