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Item Title
Modern Attitudes towards Life and Death
Collection TitleFiring Line broadcast records
Guest
Muggeridge, Malcolm
(1903-1990)
Host
Buckley, William F., Jr.
(1925-2008)
Date CreatedMay 21, 1979
Description
Mr. Muggeridge presciently predicts, in WFB's paraphrase, that "the same attitude of mind that permits abortion cannot know when to curb its millenarianist passion for the perfect society. What must come, what surely will come ... is euthanasia." The conversation with this favorite Firing Line guest ranges from abortion to St. Augustine's City of God. One sample from Mr. Muggeridge: "The earthly city of St. Augustine is a grubby place, but once you see the City of God, its grubbiness somehow seems much less, much more bearable, because you know that every single thing in it, even the grubbiness, is related to this other City of God."
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Country of Origin
Place RecordedNew York City, New York, United States
DimensionsDuration: 60 minutes
FormatText
Medium
television programs
Aspect Ratio
4:3
Color
color
Soundtrack
sound
Hoover IDProgram S0370
Record Number80040.612
NotesVideo available through special order.
Collection Guidehttps://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt6m3nc88c
RightsCopyright held by Stanford University. This copy is provided for educational and research purposes only. No publication, further reproduction, or reuse of copies, beyond fair use, may be made without the express written permission of the Hoover Institution Library & Archives on behalf of Stanford University.
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