Detail View: Conference on World Affairs Audio Archive: Singles

Collection Name: 
Conference On World Affairs Archives
Identifier ARK: 
https://ark.colorado.edu/ark:/47540/tb1v8v0944gc
identifier: 
cwa_88-86.mp3
title: 
Singles
titleType: 
Program
titleSeries: 
Series XXIV: Relationships
subject: 
Single people
subjectAuthorityUsed: 
http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1119415
subject: 
Dating (Social customs)
subjectAuthorityUsed: 
http://id.worldcat.org/fast/888094
description: 
Moderated by Kevin M. McMahon; 00:10 Richard Farson is talking about relationships: singles, marriage, divorce, and remarriage; 07:32 Farson says that people just want to be known and be vulnerable with the person; 09:32 Farson stops speaking; 09:45 Michael Stoff begins speaking and takes a poll of who is single, married, or married and wants to be single; 11:08 Stoff talks about the history of being single in America; 16:45 Stoff talks about a film and advertisement about singles; 0:20:49 Stoff discusses that by being single one can discover themselves, so when people get into a relationship it is healthier; 22:17 Stoff stops speaking; 22:31 Roger Ebert begins speaking how their is no time in his life for a meaningful relationship with another person; 24:28 Discusses that his life and other people's lives do not have the time to be in relationship; 24:50 Suggests that people get married in late teens to early twenties to grow with each other. Then discusses people with addiction to drugs or drinking who get into relationships with people with addiction to make a bad relationship. 40:28 Ebert stops speaking; 40:34 Sonya Hamlin begins speaking about her personal life; 45:43 Hamlin says that people should reach out when they are lonely; 50:29 Discusses that it really hurts to involuntarily lose a piece of yourself; 51:13 Hamlin stops speaking; 52:14 Unidentified audience member asks what happened to Ebert’s life that made him stop drinking. Ebert says that he reached out to AA. He then talks about drinkers; 55:33 Unidentified audience member asks how to say no. Hamlin says she felt that she was at a loss after her husband's death. Accepting everything helped her move on and then learned how to say no after. Hamlin learned how to say no because of her female friends. 57:41 Unidentified panelist talks to Hamlin about her time in Paris and says that travelling and eating alone is ok; 01:00:00 Unidentified audience member asks how she finds the balance between love and career. Hamlin says that she had a certain lifestyle so it was perfect for her; 01:06:05 Unidentified panelist says that pregnancies were a fear back then. There is also an age crisis that scares people; 01:08:57 Unidentified panelist says that intimacy takes time; 01:10:28 Unidentified panelist talks about what they look for when they are single. The panelists then talk about what they look for; 01:22:28 Unidentified audience member asks about serial monogamy. Unidentified panelist says that pregnancy and diseases have been a thing for a while and it has not changed; 01:27:13 Unidentified audience member asks whether people change their mind to get married when they swear they would never. Unidentified panelist says that people can change; 01:31:32 Hamlin says that there are many men, but there are only a few men who are perfect for them; 01:36:00 Hamlin says that the beauty standards are annoying, but people change when they find the right person; 01:37:04 Unidentified panelist says that advertisers have been taught to see what they think men like to see. The panelists then discuss the stereotype for women; 01:43:04 Unidentified audience member says that women have imposed things on men to live up to. Unidentified panelist says that men have done the same thing too. People have been doing this for a long time. People have found other things than physical features to be attracted to; 01:46:03 Audience members applaud and discussion ends.
descriptionType: 
Program
coverageSpatial: 
Memorial Forum
contributor: 
Ebert, Roger
contributorRole: 
Panelist
contributor: 
Stoff, Michael
contributorRole: 
Panelist
contributor: 
Farson, Richard
contributorRole: 
Panelist
contributor: 
Hamlin, Sonya
contributorRole: 
Panelist
publisher: 
CWA/Archives, University of Colorado at Boulder
publisherRole: 
Publisher
rightsSummary: 
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dateCreated: 
1988-04-13
formatPhysical: 
1/4 inch audio cassette
formatDigital: 
audio/mpeg
formatMediaType: 
Sound
formatGenerations: 
Audio/Original recording
formatStandard: 
MPEG Audio
formatEncoding: 
audio/mp3
formatDuration: 
1:53:00
formatTracks: 
1 audio track
formatChannelConfiguration: 
dual-channel mono
language: 
English