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
States in this period of 1970s. And were going to use three handles as were going to use vehicles, were going to use film and were going to use the crises of the seventies to weave this all together and somehow come up with some sort of an understanding about changes in identity during this tumultuous decade. Before i began, my cohost, dr. Todd altman in indiana and rutgers, ph. D. , and an american professor. He and ended up writing an article. In 2014 in the journal popular culture, entitled stealing freedom, which dealt with film and auto theft. And i think the class read that as part of your assignment it and todd has done many other different kinds of studies during the past several years here at the university of dayton. And my colleague John Heitmann of course, is a very well known historian of automobile and others. He wrote a very famous book that won many awards. Im plugging it for him here. The automobile an American Life. Very good read. Wonderful book john has the most dis
indictment he is facing. plus, actor marcus scribner is in our simone spotlight. once the child star on the comedy, black-ish, now in the final season of grown-ish. what is next in his career and his role in climate change activism? i have something to say. it s been just over a week since the six conservative justices on the united states supreme court upended decades of precedent, banning the consideration of race in the college admissions process. now, americans are beginning to evaluate this new terrain with some launching new efforts in the fight for racial equity and education, others working overtime to shut out students of color. this week, a group called lawyers for civil rights, or lcr, filed a complaint against harvard university. one of the response to the supreme court admissions cases one behalf of three civil rights organizations based in boston. they are asking the federal government to intervene and abolish a system called legacy preference. legacy preferen
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Be dry, too. The streak of 80s will come to an end when the 90s return. When we have a dew point temperature like today in the 70s in that steamy zone, we have to Start Talking about a heat index again over 100 degrees. Thats how the first full weekend of august will begin. Starts off early tomorrow, muggy. Youll be sadly that will be the coolest time all weekend. 92 for a high. Will feel like 102. Tomorrow its an isolated storm. Sunday it gets cooler, but its a tradeoff. Download the wncn app if you havent already, look for it in your app store. Two horses with the raleigh accident this afternoon on u. S. 401. These are photos the Police Department provided us of ike and willow. They were headed back to their stable after being on duty. As the truck approached the intersection, a car cut the truck off, forcing the driver of the trailer to swerve. They were treated by a veterinarian, but should be okay. The Governors Office is offering up to 50,000 to violence. Police say most of the m