Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
Michael Parkinson interviews Robert Mitchum on Parkinson. This episode was originally telecast by the BBC on August 19, 1972:
(This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday)
“The history of credulity would be the most singular page in the great history of mankind. From those vast beliefs which have founded religions and empires, down to the inventions that garnish the last new murder, there has always been a tendency in the human mind to believe with as little expense of the reasoning faculty as possible.”
Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Life and Literary Remains of L.E.L.