Cooperatively than in the past, not always perfect but much better so i think so i think a series of things but you cant declare victory, something could happen today or tomorrow, that wasnt an instant on our radar screen. We have, drove into times square 2010 and found a parking spot in time square with a bomb in his car. Nobody knew anything about him, quite frankly. So those types of things are possible. It is just the world in which wally. Rose David Miliband and ray kelly next. Funding for charlie rose was provided by the following. And american express. Rose additional funding provided by these funders. And by bloomberg. A provider of multimedia news and Information Services worldwide. From our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Rose David Miliband is here. He was britains foreign secretary from 2007 to 2010. He then ran for la Labor Party Leadership later that year but defeated by ed miliband, april designed from part. To be chief executive of the International Resc
Is working to the and more cooperatively than in the past, not always perfect but much better so i think so i think a series of things but you cant declare victory, something could happen today or tomorrow, that wasnt an instant on our radar screen. We have, drove into times square 2010 and found a parking spot in time square with a bomb in his car. Nobody knew anything about him, quite frankly. So those types of things are possible. It is just the world in which wally. Rose David Miliband and ray kelly next. Funding for charlie rose was provided by the following. And american express. Rose additional funding provided by these funders. And by bloomberg. A provider of multimedia news and Information Services worldwide. From our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Rose David Miliband is here. He was britains foreign secretary from 2007 to 2010. He then ran for la Labor Party Leadership later that year but defeated by ed miliband, april designed from part. To be chief executiv
Book of World Records and in those days in order to get in the guinness book you had to or push a painted across iowa with your nose. When id looked in the guinness book i came upon a word that had the most meaning in english which was set in for. It had 137 meanings. But it was one of the words with the most meanings. The soft underbelly of this book was language and words so i started working on a collection of words and i have now gone through seven or eight collections and in fact there are people in this room who have added to the collection in the last 72 hours. We are now up to almost 3000 words. What was interesting about it was it was not meant to be a celebration of what is a social ill but it was to show the phenomenal sort of what the english language is. And what really got to me was looking at all the people that collected a list of drunkenness from their time. Tom paine Benjamin Franklin Ambrose Bierce Edmund Wilson had all been sort of fascinated by the fact that in his
Im not saying that it just exists in the south. I know it exist everywhere. Yes come you can still see signs of it. You have inserted in your book no alabama. What is that . It is my fourthgrade alabama history textbook. I remember. I was about nine or 10 years old. It was the way they pertain to civil war and the antebellum period. When i was fully adult i came upon that book in the represented section of the Public Library in tuscaloosa. I was stunned to see how racist language was and how appalling it is for the institution of slavery. The negro, mammy, comes ringing a great tray of food. You have known her all your life and love her very much is here is the book, darkroom a memoir in black and white, lila quintero weaver is the author. The university of alabama is the publisher. You write that you were surprised to see africanamericans when he first arrived in alabama. Yes, because argentina, it is where i was in the first years of my life where i was raised. There are Indigenous P
Host weve been talking with tim gay, author of assignment to hell. Thanks, tim. Guest thank you very much, appreciate it. Next on booktv, paul dickson presents a collection of words popularized by american president s. The authors collection includes warren g. Hardings Founding Fathers invoked during his 1920s president ial campaign, Theodore Roosevelts use of the word muckraker in a speech critical of specific journalists, and military Industrial Complex delivered by president eisenhower during his final president ial address to the American Public in 961. 1961. This is a little under an hour. [applause] thank you very much. Ive been playing around with words for a long time, and i think when i was a kid, one of my i wasnt that athletic, and i wasnt that, you know, smart in various ways, but i could always go home and memorize a couple words, so i would learn words like ap nettic and things like that apathetic, you know, which for the third grader was a lot of of fun. And as i got to