Publication
Imprint: Bonsall, California : MondayMEDIA, 2012. Responsibility: Produced by GemsTone ; produced Jon Monday and Anna Monday ; directed by Jon Monday. Credits: Art production, Anna Monday. Performer(s): Host, Ken Dychtwald ; interviewee, Huston Smith. OCLC Number: 1104907814. Language: In English. Physical: 1 videodisc (80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. Features: DVD.
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DVD / Front Desk
UPC
804879175797
Original publication date
2012
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Description: Author, teacher, and lecturer Huston Smith is best known for his scholarship, being the father of world s religions studies in America. But on December 27, 2009, Ken Dychtwald, psychologist, gerontologist, and visionary thinker on the subject of the age wave that is upon us, interviewed Smith with the objective of getting not his academic view, but rather his personal view, of the maturation process. Dychtwald brought out the warmth, depth, common sense, and wonderful humor of Huston Smith in the course of elucidating Smith s perspective on life at 90 from the age of 90-plus. Huston Smith has been a pioneer and role model for the Boomer generation in the field of Religious Pluralism. He now has something to teach about the aging process.
The two men developed a wonderful rapport, Smith being elated to encounter in Dychtwald an interviewer with a sharp mind and novel approach. At one point, he turned to Dychtwald, arms spread wide, saying, If you see an opening, hit me! ...much to Dychtwald s delight.
Ken Dychtwald has for decades studied and interviewed many seniors, but found Smith unique. To quote Dychtwald about the interview: One of the things that surprised me most ... was his sense of humor, his playfulness. ...Being in the presence of a deep-thinking philosopher and religious expert in his nineties who was boyish, who was teasing, who was in the sparring action of the interview, who was having fun, who was clever and wry and creative with his mind as any 12 or 15 or 25 year old I ve met, was an incredible experience.
FY2013 / jvsn
The two men developed a wonderful rapport, Smith being elated to encounter in Dychtwald an interviewer with a sharp mind and novel approach. At one point, he turned to Dychtwald, arms spread wide, saying, If you see an opening, hit me! ...much to Dychtwald s delight.
Ken Dychtwald has for decades studied and interviewed many seniors, but found Smith unique. To quote Dychtwald about the interview: One of the things that surprised me most ... was his sense of humor, his playfulness. ...Being in the presence of a deep-thinking philosopher and religious expert in his nineties who was boyish, who was teasing, who was in the sparring action of the interview, who was having fun, who was clever and wry and creative with his mind as any 12 or 15 or 25 year old I ve met, was an incredible experience.
FY2013 / jvsn
Physical description
4.75 inches
Language
Original language
English