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This discussion series, produced by the American Library Association, features noted authors, critics and scholars on various topics.

Available Episodes

#8: Should We Be Educating For Excellence00:29:30

#15: Can Attitudes be Legislated00:29:40

#2: Labor Leisure and Automation00:30:00

#6: Who Sets Standards and Values00:29:15

#18 "Africa: Past, Present, and Future" with Quincy Howe00:29:55

#3: Wanted: A Redefinition of the Classics00:29:44

#9: Each to the Other00:29:47

#11: Biography?00:29:45

#17: Spiritual Poverty00:30:00

#13: The Changing Roles of Magazines00:29:45

#16: Books Into Mass Media00:29:57

#1: The American Genius for Self-Examination00:30:00

#19 "The US and the Western Alliance" with Quincy Howe00:29:44

#20 "The Job of the Presidency"00:29:45

#12: Are The Arts Becoming Incomprehensible?00:29:55

#14: The U.S. and the Far East00:29:37

#7: Changing Attitudes Toward Women00:29:45

#4: Books That Formed My Opinions00:29:07

Present-Day Immigration Waves00:29:33

#5: Freud and 20th Century Literature00:29:35

#10: Let's Redefine Tolerance00:29:44

1965-06-04Education and social change00:28:44

1965-05-26Shifting role of the university00:29:44

1965-05-13Is science sterilizing humanistic thought?00:29:42

1965-05-12Will man be modified?00:29:27

1965-05-11Protestant ethic today00:29:33

1965-04-29Present-day immigration waves00:29:15

1965-04-21The job of the presidency00:29:40

1965-04-19The U.S. and Western alliance00:29:37

1965-04-09Africa: Past, present and future00:29:42

1965-04-06Spiritual poverty00:29:53

1965-03-30Books into mass media00:29:45

1965-03-18Can attitudes be legislated?00:29:25

1965-03-16The U.S. and the Far East00:29:26

1965-03-08The changing role of magazines00:29:33

1965-03-01Are the arts becoming incomprehensible00:29:39

1965-02-18What makes a good biography00:29:22

1965-02-15Let's redefine tolerance00:29:36

1965-02-04Each to the other00:29:41

1965-01-28Should we educate for excellence?00:29:23

1965-01-25Changing attitudes toward women00:29:36

1965-01-14Who sets standards and values?00:29:05

1965-01-12Freud and twentieth century literature00:29:13

1965-01-04Wanted: Redefinition of classics00:29:41

1965-01-04Books that formed my opinions00:28:56

1964-12-18Labor, leisure and automation00:29:19

1964-12-17American genius for self-examination00:29:31