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Terry Teachout
Terry Teachout
American Critic
Born: Feb 6, 1956
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Aesthetes have it all over intellectuals in one very important respect: You'll rarely catch us hustling anyone off to the nearest guillotine. We're too busy trying to make the world more beautiful. Our hands are stained with ink and paint, not blood. Terry Teachout
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Life usually tells the best stories - but sometimes it takes an artist to show us what they mean. Terry Teachout
Life Best Sometimes Tells Takes Artist Stories Mean Us Show
Were I to be appointed Secretary of Education, I'd issue a prospectus for a compulsory nationwide high school course called 'The American Experience in Art.' Terry Teachout
Education Art Experience School Secretary High High School Compulsory Course Issue Were American Nationwide American Experience Appointed
You don't have to know anything about the Shakers to appreciate Mr. Copland's score for 'Appalachian Spring' any more than you have to know who William Randolph Hearst was to understand 'Citizen Kane.' Terry Teachout
You Citizen Spring William Citizen Kane About More Know Understand Score Than Any Anything Kane Appalachian Who Appreciate
A play is not a play until it's performed, and unless it's a one-person play that is acted, directed and designed by the author, many other people will be deeply involved in the complicated process that leads to its performance. Terry Teachout
People Complicated Will Other Unless Directed Performance Performed Leads Involved Until Author Process Acted Many Play Deeply Designed
I'm not rigid about directorial changes: I judge them on a case-by-case basis. In the case of a play whose text is widely familiar, I'm open to drastic changes that may alter the author's meaning, perhaps even considerably. If the results don't work, then I say so. Terry Teachout
Work Judge Changes Considerably Drastic Say Rigid About Case Results Open Perhaps Alter Text Familiar Author May Them Meaning Then Even Whose Play Widely Basis
I suspect that most playgoers don't understand how inexact a science literary translation is. Even the simplest of lines may lend itself to multiple renderings. Terry Teachout
Science Translation Simplest Most Understand How Lines Itself Suspect May Literary Lend Multiple Even
No translation can possibly be perfect. Every production and every performance is a different path up the mountain, and nobody ever makes it all the way to the summit. Terry Teachout
Path Translation Every Summit Way Possibly Perfect Performance Nobody Makes Up Mountain Different Different Path Production Ever
Most 'Monty Python' fans are, of course, baby boomers, who have long been a nostalgic lot and are growing more so as they totter toward old age. Terry Teachout
Age Old Fans Long Old Age Baby Baby Boomers Monty Monty Python Boomers More Toward Python Most Course Been Lot Nostalgic Who Growing
Not surprisingly, my parents' generation did everything they could to make life easier for their own children. Was that good for us? I wonder. It certainly didn't do us any good from a cultural point of view. I'm struck by how few boomers have embraced adult culture in middle age. Terry Teachout
Life Good Age Generation Culture Parents Few Own Everything Boomers Easier Embraced Struck Point Could Point Of View Adult Make How Cultural Surprisingly Wonder Did Any Middle Middle Age Children Us View Certainly
As late as the early '50s, jazz was still, for the most part, a genuinely popular music, a utilitarian, song-based idiom to which ordinary people could dance if they felt like it. Terry Teachout
Music People Dance Jazz Late Could Part Like Most Idiom Felt Genuinely Still Ordinary Which Ordinary People Popular Popular Music Utilitarian Early
Even if I could, I wouldn't want to undo the transformation of jazz into a sophisticated art music. Terry Teachout
Music Art Transformation Jazz Could Sophisticated Undo Want If I Could Even
No, I don't know how to get young people to start listening to jazz again. But I do know this: Any symphony orchestra that thinks it can appeal to under-30 listeners by suggesting that they 'should' like Schubert and Stravinsky has already lost the battle. Terry Teachout
Battle People Listening Lost Young Jazz Symphony Symphony Orchestra Like Know Schubert How Get Any Listeners Orchestra Again Young People Should Appeal Stravinsky Start Suggesting Thinks
It's said that most Americans under the age of 30 reflexively dislike movies made before 1970, especially those that were shot in black and white. If this is so, I suspect it's because such films portray an America that no longer exists. Terry Teachout
Age Black Made Black And White Before White Films Those Longer Most Because Said Were Exists America American Suspect Movies Dislike Shot Portray
Limitations, be they practical or arbitrary, force artists to dig more deeply instead of settling for easy answers. Terry Teachout
Dig Settling Arbitrary Easy More Instead Practical Force Limitations Answers Artists Deeply
A playwright who limits himself - or is limited - to a handful of characters is forced to concentrate on the essentials of the situation that he has chosen to portray. Terry Teachout
Situation Playwright Characters He Concentrate Forced Himself Limited Limits Handful Essentials Who Chosen Portray
The digital apocalypse continues to blight the lives of television producers, music-industry executives and newspaper publishers, all of whom are scrambling to figure out how to reconfigure their business models in such a way as to allow them to make an honest buck. Terry Teachout
Business Digital Way Television Out Allow Buck Blight Make Executives How Models Them Newspaper Apocalypse Producers Figure Such A Way Whom Lives Publishers Honest
Everybody in America was talking about TV early in 1949, though comparatively few Americans owned a set of their own. Terry Teachout
Few Own Everybody Though TV About Talking America American Owned Comparatively Early Set
Americans of all ages embraced TV unhesitatingly. They felt no loyalty to network radio, the medium that had entertained and informed them for a quarter-century. When something came along that they deemed superior, they switched off their radios without a second thought. Terry Teachout
Loyalty Thought Superior Medium TV Entertained Embraced Something Network Had Along Felt Without Came Off American Informed Them Ages Radio Deemed Switched Second
In 2004, the iPod was a novelty, and tablet computers were a dream. Now we take for granted that we can see whatever we want whenever and wherever we want to see it, be it 'Grand Illusion' or 'Duck Dynasty.' Terry Teachout
Take For Granted Illusion Whatever Dream See Tablet Take Computers Duck Were iPod Whenever Want Wherever Grand Dynasty Granted Novelty Now
Unlike film and TV, theater is a luxury object, but one that ordinary middle-class people can still afford. Above all, it isn't a mass medium: Live theater is a small-scale, handmade art form. Intimacy is what makes it special. Terry Teachout
Art People Luxury Live Medium Unlike Intimacy TV Object Above Mass Makes Still Art Form Handmade Afford Form Ordinary Theater Special Live Theater Film Film And TV
'Man and Superman,' first performed in 1905, is by common consent one of George Bernard Shaw's greatest and most significant plays, yet hardly anybody performs it today, for the understandable reason that an uncut performance runs for about five hours. Terry Teachout
Today Man Superman First Bernard Significant Runs About Performance Performed Performs Hours Most Greatest Understandable George Five Common Anybody Reason Hardly Consent Plays
A masterpiece doesn't push you around. It lets you make up your own mind about what it means - and change it as often as you like. Terry Teachout
You Change Mind Own About Push Like Make Masterpiece Make Up Around Up Often Means Your Lets
Most of us remember Nat King Cole as a vocalist. His warm, grainy baritone is still so closely identified with such familiar ballads as 'Stardust' and 'The Christmas Song' that it's hard to imagine anyone else performing them. Terry Teachout
Christmas Song Remember King Else Vocalist Performing Most Identified Ballads Still Nat King Cole His Familiar Closely Anyone Anyone Else Them Warm Us Baritone Hard Stardust Imagine
Useful though they are, the vast majority of dictionaries and encyclopedias are poker-faced pieces of work that stick to the facts and present them as soberly - and unstylishly - as possible. Terry Teachout
Work Though Possible Vast Vast Majority Facts Pieces Majority Stick Dictionaries Them Useful Present
I can remember - barely - when Elton John was still a good songwriter, or at least capable of writing good songs. Terry Teachout
Good Writing Remember Elton Elton John John Songs Songwriter Least Still Capable Barely
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