Meeting of Minds, Volume X

De: Steve Allen

Narrado por: Sandy Kenyon, Jayne Meadows, Al Mancini

Duración: 1 h y 58 m

Resumen del Editor

Conceived and developed by Steve Allen, the award-winning PBS-TV series Meeting of the Minds brought together the most provocative figures of history for conversation and conflict.

For the 10th session of intellectual time-travel, Steve Allen summoned three strikingly different thinkers, each certain to provoke outrage in the other. Adam Smith shows up in his bathrobe and opens the proceedings by proclaiming himself not merely an economist but "an everlasting student of life!" Margaret Sanger, introduced as the inventor of birth control, insists that "I was not creative—I was appalled!" Mohandas Gandhi insists that "True civilization itself consists not in the multiplication, but in the voluntary reduction of wants and desires."

As the conversation proceeds, confrontations erupt as the inevitable result of juxtaposing the ascetic purity of Gandhi, the earnest social consciousness of Ms. Sanger, and the almost impishly detached intellectualism of Smith.

Meet more minds: listen to further volumes of Steve Allen's Meeting of Minds series.

©2009 Phoenix (P)2009 Phoenix

Reseñas de la Crítica

"Meeting of Minds held our family fascinated. We felt it a conception of originality and courage...a masterpiece of presentation." (Will Durant)

Steve is brilliant and Jayne is marvilous

Have you listened to any of the narrators’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

I watched and recorded these to audio tape when they were on PBS. Unfortunately audio tape twists and turns until you can,t run it anymore. All of these performances are excellent

Any additional comments?

When I have more money to spare, I,'ll pick up the rest of them. Would be thrilled if Audible picked up the rest of the series. I know there were at least 4 seasons. Hi-ho Steverino, we miss you.