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Program 228: The Arts in a Democratic Society - I

In excerpts from a two-day preliminary conference, the discussion centers on government support of the arts, dealing with questions about policy, purpose, selectivity, and the basic issue of how freedom of expression can be protected under a system of bureaucratic procedures. The panel, led by Gifford Phillips, includes Harry S. Ashmore, Dan Burhans, Kirk Douglas, Harrop A. Freeman, Hallock Hoffman, John Houseman, Walter Hopps, Robert M. Hutchins, Abbot Kaplan, Frank K. Kelly, Ernie Kreiling, Vukan Kuic, Irving Laucks, Thomas W. Leavitt, Richard Lichtman, Lawrence Lipton, Donald McDonald, Edward Reed, Howard Richards, Stanley K. Sheinbaum, Roger Stevens, Jan Stussy, Henri Temianka, Harvey Wheeler, John Wilkinson, Harold Willens, and Robert Woetzel. Oct. 4, 1965. [CSDI program number 228; UCSB tape numbers A7802/R7, A7803/R7]

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The Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions (CSDI) was founded by Robert Maynard Hutchins and was based in Santa Barbara, California, from 1959 to 1987. During that time it brought together many of the most capable and distinguished minds of the times to discuss vital issues facing American society of the day. Thanks to donors Neal Linson, Ceil Pulitzer, and Stanley Sheinbaum, a project has begun to digitize and make accessible on the web some of the most important conference proceedings, talks, and dialogues recorded by CSDI.

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