Word: scoffers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that Proust's neurotic throwbacks to childish ways were part & parcel of his genius ("To remain a child is to become a poet"). Such a relating of art to neurosis, quite fashionable these days, is only half true and is dangerous on two counts: it confirms the scoffer's prejudice that all artists are nuts anyway, and it caters to the illusion of the idle bohemian who thinks that because he is neurotic he is also talented...