1990 Needleman, professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University and director of the Center for the Study of New Religions at the University of California at Berkely, talks about money and its power to shape life's meaning. Peace Dividend with Seymour Melman VHS 30 min. 1990 Melman, Professor Emeritus of Industrial Engineering at Columbia University and Chair of the National Commission for Economic Conversion and Disarmament, discusses ways to convert military spending to peace-time uses. Further north, at the close of the 15th century, Gutenberg's printing press was becoming a major influence. The writings of Luther, Erasmus and Thomas More spread to a wider audience through the print medium.
Medieval life gives way to the doubts and fears of the individual in modern society.
Later, Montaigne and Shakespeare speak out for intellectual honesty and skepticism. A new civilization is created, not of the image but of the word. These qualities are also reflected in architecture in the rococo style. Murray Gell-Mann VHS 30 min. 1990 Recipient of the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in elementary particle theory that led to his discovery of the particles he named 'quarks' and professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology.