TOO MUCH OF A GREAT THING

“The world would doubtless be a poorer place if nobody could see Renoir’s ‘Luncheon of the Boating Party’ or listen to the Hallelujah Chorus for a full year. But imagine the effect that such a moratorium would have on our responses to those works come next May. Wouldn’t you like to be able to recapture the immediacy with which you first made the acquaintance of Charles Foster Kane once upon a half-remembered time?…”