Correction!  Mike Frank assures me that he wasn't himself suggesting 
that any misanthropy attributable to Hitchcock would, ipso facto, 
denigrate him in his (Mike's) eyes.  Mike wrote me: '... the idea that 
there always has to be a redemptive strain in great art strikes me as 
nonsense ... so i'm with you there'.  Sorry, Mike!

- KM

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