At 0:18 -0400 6/30/03, Ray Evans Harrell wrote: >I like Bernard Holland. Over the years when he has reviewed me he has done it well. > When he has criticized I have usually agreed with him. When he has complimented I >have not always agreed but was grateful. For that reason I hate to state that he >was so completely wrong headed in this article. To find the fault in the people who >are carrying the stones when the problem is with the architect is not a cool thing to >do if you are being paid to be a judge. To judge the intent of the architect as >being solely economic is a common mistake but avoids the substance of greatness.
Your criticism of Holland is on point. There is a lot of good talent managing orchestras. [snip] >A lawyer and a doctor shouldn't coast once they have done their study but they do to >our loss. When a performing artist coasts he is booed and gone immediately. But >even if you aren't booed and even loved you can still be "out of luck" and work. On the contrary, lawyers work very, very hard to keep up in an extremely adversarial environment, which is why they succumb to addiction, depression and suicide at a rate several times that of the general population. This is the voice of experience; I quite practicing law for seven years because of depression. A doctor that coasts will find himself sued for malpractice in short order. Which is not to say that the current situation is ideal. I believe it was in *The Republic* that Plato discussed the distinction between professionals and entrepreneurs. The real (parasitic) coasting, on the other hand, is by persons who are paid obscene sums to merely shift assets around without adding to them. -- _________________________________________________________________________ Tom Lowe The tygers of wrath Jackson, Mississippi are wiser than [EMAIL PROTECTED] the horses of instruction. http://www.jacksonprogressive.com -- William Blake _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
