By JAMES D. WATTS JR. Scene Writer on Aug 26, 2008, at 11:34 AM Updated on 8/26 at 11:34 AM
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Terry Teachout, the drama critic for the Wall Street Journal and one of this country's best all-round commentators on the fine arts, pointed out this quote from the late John Russell, the former New York Times arts critic who died over the weekend.
"I do not see my role as primarily punitive. There are artists whose work I dread to see yet again, dance-dramas that in my view have set back the American psyche several hundred years, composers whose names drive me from the concert hall, authors whose books I shall never willingly reopen. But it has never seemed to me much of an ambition to go though life snarling and spewing."
Teachout wrote:
"I very much wish I'd said that. It's exactly how I feel about what I do, and now that I've seen it put so lucidly, I mean to try even harder to live up to it."
Amen to all that.
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