Sondheim's weaker lyrics/rhymes
This is all Sondheim's fault. After reading Finishing The Hat and Look, I Made A Hat, I listen to music and lyrics differently. I hear mis-stresses and false rhymes and imperfections that might not have registered before. I hear "Everybody called him Wilkes. Why did you do it Johnny?" and think, well, almost everybody called him Wilkes. Nobody's perfect, but who needs perfection when best of the best will do.
