Lord Clark on our civilization

I well remember the series. Back in the early 1970s, I was living in Florida, working as an assistant audio-visual librarian for the Tampa-Hillsborough Public Library system. Somehow — can’t remember, now, it’s been so long — I found time to watch the ten-part television series “Civilization” by Kenneth Clark, later Lord Clark. The shows were fascinating, a visual treat, an intellectual feast, an emotional turmoil. Some years later, as some second-hand book store or other, I found the transcripts of the series in book form. An old journal recorded these concluding sections of Lord Clark’s disturbingly prescient talks.

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