Scope and Contents This is the first of a series of eight Lindeman Lectures in the spring of 1962. The Lindeman Lecture Series was titled, "A Look At American Values." Named for sociologist and philosopher Eduard C. Lindeman, author of The Meaning of Adult Education, the series ran from approximately 1951-1978. The recording begins at minute 00:01:30, with the lecture already in progress. Speaker William L. White was associate director of the American Civil Liberties...

Scope and Contents This audio recording is of a New School Associates panel discussion on Edward Albee's 1962 play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf by experts in drama and psychiatry, held in the New School Auditorium. The unidentified group chairperson makes introductory remarks about the New School Associates, and introduces the moderator, Dr. Rollo May. At 7:07 May makes remarks about the play and its importance, and introduces Dr. Allan Lewis, who makes remarks starting at...

Scope and Contents This audio recording is of a dinner forum held at the New School for Social Research on the topic of the role of the federal government in New York City affairs. It was co-sponsored by the Center For New York City Affairs, an institute at The New School. Moderator R. Peter Straus begins the program and introduces Representative Theodore R. Kupferman (R), NY-17th district, who begins his remarks at 6:31 on the importance of federal intervention with regard to environmental pollution and...

Scope and Contents Werner Muensterberger, psychoanalyst, art historian, and collector of African art, discusses the psychology of collecting. Some of the phenomena discussed include specialization and differentiation, primitivity and complexity, “trophy” acquisition, and completion. Muensterberger also discusses the history of collecting he also includes within his purview coin collecting, “tulipomania,” and antiquing. He also discusses the “magico-religious” meaning of ancient cave paintings, the Venus de...

Scope and Contents This audio recording is of the twenty-eighth commencement exercises of The New School, at which honorary doctor of law degrees were conferred on Edward R. Murrow (in absentia), Nathan W. Levin, and Earl Warren. The recording begins with New School President Robert MacIver welcoming the attendees and introducing Dean William Birenbaum to announce the candidates for baccalaureate degrees. The recording then skips to MacIver's introduction of Jacob M. Kaplan at 1:06, who presents the first...

Scope and Contents This audio recording is of the thirty-second commencement exercises of The New School. William Styron, Thomas Hart Benton, Bayard Rustin, and Daniel Patrick Moynihan received honorary degrees at the event. The recording begins with processional music, and the welcome remarks commence at 7:19. New School President John Everett calls on Dean Allen Austill to present the baccalaureate candidates, who begins at 8:26, and President Everett confers the degrees at 8:59. At 9:49, Dean Joseph...