Eugene David ...The One-Minute Pundit |
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Sunday, October 26, 2003
A blurbist takes 1,626 words to do what I could do in fifty: Had Bernstein been (as Brooks Atkinson had hoped he would be, as he was probably too self-conscious ever to be) "America's Offenbach," Broadway and our culture would be much livelier. Instead we got Sondheim and his tuneless dead-end, his self-worshipping faith of ennui. But it hardly seems fruitful to point this out in even fifty words when our culture's taken so many wrong turns.
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