The band's well-staged greatness gained its real meaning when such a balance was struck.
While it's enduringly important to revisit works of well-known greatness — their merits reside precisely in their complexity, in the vastness of thought that reveals itself only subtly and gradually, through multiple viewings — it's also important to experience the shock of the new by means of the old, to discover an artistic past that is unsettled and has yet to be known.
What I had tried to do in my own book about Welles ("Rosebud: The Story of Orson Welles") was reclaim the actual man, showing the flaws, tricks and evasions as well as the greatness.
We should glory in British television's ability to produce great period drama, and abuse not the genre, but simply the efforts that fall well short of greatness, such as the almost hysterically overrated (but beautifully made) Downton Abbey.
The talk was held in Boston, and its nebulous-sounding subject ("The Uses of Natural History," a title that conceals its greatness well) helped lay the groundwork for the nineteenth-century philosophy of transcendentalism.
But: "Breaking Bad" was on AMC, a network I knew only through "Mad Men," a show I watch loyally and think has brilliant aspects but ultimately falls well short of greatness.
"We can be slow as well to give greatness its due, a mistake I made myself long ago when I voted against a federal holiday in memory of Dr. King.
2.01am BST Peyton Manning and greatness Well, while we have the time to kill, let's get into that question I raised earlier about whether Manning needs another Super Bowl ring to be considered in the Greatest of All Time conversation.
The well is our greatness and potential.
"We can be slow as well to give greatness its due, a mistake I myself made long ago when I voted against a federal holiday in memory of Dr. King.
