All right. I have a Staggering Number of powerpoint slides for this. Get your bets down now on whether i can get through them or not. I will even omit my customary lame professor humor, about the ncaa tournament, for example. Thats how serious this is. Lets think for a minute, though, about where were situated, what were working on here. In this last third of the course that we started last week, were dealing with the postrevolutionary era. Weve built this idea that something radical and transformative happened to music in the 1960s. Weve worked hard over the course of several weeks to establish those ideas. And we cant leave it, though, just as a kind of baby boomer nostalgia for the days that were. What weve been trying to deal with then, though, is this sense of pervasive disappointment, that the revolution somehow ended in the early 1970s. The popular music became a disappointment, aesthetically, politically. Thats the cliche. We saw plenty of evidence for it. What weve been trying
Campaign controversy what is it that i said wrong . Joe biden pushes back in a new interview overnight after being accused of misrepresenting his involvement in a harrowing war story. I said, sir, i do not want the damn thing do not pin it on me, sir the alleged gaffe that has the Democratic Frontrunner under fire once again. All that, plus, scooting under the influence. The new warning tied to a popular trend in cities across the country. What is good news . Im on the mend, and thats all i can hope for right now. Beloved host alex trebek returns to jeopardy, sharing an encouraging update on his health from the set. Going loco for coco. Coco gauff wins another thriller at the u. S. Open coco mania is catching hold setting up a mustwatch showdown with the defending champ. Today, friday, august 30th, 2019 announcer from nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb, live from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza welcome to today on this friday morning we are rounding out the week
good evening. right now it s 2:00 a.m. in gaza, but there will likely be little sleep for many people there tonight. tonight we ve been watching multiple images of multiple explosions lighting up the night sky around gaza city. cnn s nic robertson in sderot witnessed some big secondary explosions and a huge fire in gaza. nic and his crew witnessed eight rockets being fired from gaza and israel. the idf tell cnn six of the eight rockets were intercepted by the country s iron dome defense system. israeli police say there are no reports of casualties that they can pass along at this moment. meanwhile, u.s. secretary of state antony blinken has wrapped up his meeting with arab leaders in jordan. he s heading to turkey. blinken stressed support for israel to implement what s being called a humanitarian pause in the fighting in gaza, that is far short of the cease-fire wanted by arab countries and international aid agencies. minutes ago israel s military said it would allow a a w
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Every week, its another excuse. We had a massive landslide victory, as you know, in the electoral college. Stephen okay, since you brought it up, there have been 58 president ial elections, so far. Of those 58, your victory ranked 46th in the electoral college. Down here. Okay, youre below garfield, and he was a cat. We had many people saying one of the great victories of all time. Stephen can you name one of those many people . My children. Stephen anybody whos not you or your family who believes this was a landslide victory . It could be somebody sitting in a bed some place. Stephen i guess they have beds in russia. So why dont you read your daily intelligence briefing . You know, im like a smart person. Stephen how are you like a smart person . Nobody really knows. Stephen are the russian influencing you . No. I dont believe that at all. Stephen lets test that. Do you think rocky really beat ivan drago in rocky 4 . Well, if you look at the story, and you take a look at what they sai