Great to be back and a special honor to be invited to introduce tom wolfe and a huge burden because how does one introduce tom wolfe . One read the economist, of course. Two weeks ago was a wonderful article on literary realism and i will quote as a way of introduction. For use tom wolfe has been lambasting the establishment for ignoring the best story around, their own country. America positively titillate with fantastic stories and get its writers ensconced in their manhattan lofts and residentss cant be bothered to look further than the ends of their noses. This week, a moment in American Literature, he wrote in one of his manifestoes on behalf of literary realism we need a battalion, a brigade of zolofts to head into the wild bizarre, heart stopping country of ours, reclaim it as literary property. The trouble turning yourself into an american is you expose yourself to being trump by reality, better sort of critics are forever lambasting tom wolfe for going over the top, using cart
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] its my great pleasure to have my best dressed and old friend tom wolfe here for breakfast. [applaus [applause] i decided the one thing that had not been touched was college life. We or i began to hear about coed dorm, but it was a total abstraction to me. I mean, i assumed it meant more sex, but it was i couldnt get a picture of it. We heard about corruption in big time collegiate sports. I was curious how this affected the athletes themselves. What were they like . Weve heard of Political Correctness. We hear a lot about Political Correctness because in the we journalists are much more apt to be talking to professors of one sort or another, than to students. And i discovered right away that students today are eager to talk to some older person honestly about what theyre doing. And in this case, of course, it was a novel there were no dangers identified by name or even by looks, as a
And a 3rd night of protests in bella ruse for just getting president ial vote which the e. U. Says was neither free nor fair present the code could face sanctions against his main rival please the country. Hello im terry march and welcome to the program u. S. Democratic president ial candidate joe biden has chosen kamel harris to be his running mate in novembers election the senator from california is the 1st black woman and the 1st person of indian descent to be nominated for National Office by a major party this isnt comes a week ahead of the Democratic National convention where biden and harris will be officially confirmed. One time rivals no joining forces to launch a historic president ial bid this was how joe biden asked the california senate. To help him reach the white house opinions are divided. At the top of the fold over do you have a black woman the mother of the Vice President i think its a little bit risky because shes highly controversial can it be true for you in fact i
Hours and police custody. Hello im terry martin good to have you with us Us Democratic president ial candidate joe biden has chosen Kalama Harris to be his running mate in novembers election the senator from california is the 1st black woman and the 1st person of indian descent to be nominated for National Office by a major party the decision comes a week ahead of the Democratic National convention where biden and harris will be officially confirmed. One time rivals now joining forces to launch a historic president ial bid this was how joe biden asked the california senate. To help him reach the white house opinions are divided. Up again but the fall over due course to have a black woman. The Vice President i think its a little bit risky because shes highly controversial candidate through free in fact it was biden who welcomed the tough on crime prosecutor on to the National Political scene when she was sworn into the senate in 2017 to. Get it. From there she burnished a credential as
Right now, all we really have in terms of Public Safety is one system, and that is policing. People are going to be scared to create a new system of Emergency Response and i think its going to take a lot of conversations. Judy all that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by consumer cellular. Johnson johnson. Financial Services Firm raymond james. The womens Suffrage Centennial commission. Supporting social entrepreneurs and their solutions to the worlds most pressing problems. The lendl son on the web. Supported by the macarthur foundation, committed to a more just and peaceful world. And with the ongoing support of these institutions. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Judy new milestones tonight in the covid19 pandemic. In Public Health, the world has topped 700,000 deaths. In politics, Democrat Joe Biden has decided ag