An investigation in seven programmes into the developing relationship between art and its publics.
3: Is There An American Elitef by Richard poirier , Joint Editor of Partisan Review, and Professor of English at Rutgens University
Under current political pressures, Richard Poirier thinks, an intellectual elite may be crystallising for the first time; but this at a moment when ' the arts of high culture may be about to be deserted in America by the people who would normally produce them