and yes, melvyn reads this.and in his basically through the nantucket network, he got a copy of owen chases narrative. it was very rare by that point. and in his own copy, in the back of it, in writing on the same latitude as when the essex went down. i read this. and have a remarkable effect on me. and that's one of the biggest understatement in literary history. but that was not his only connection. >> no no, he had gone whaling, and melvyn was a collector. a collector of information. a collector of ideas. filtering it through and then bringing it out. and as a young man, to read this evocative account, given these family connections, and you need to let that percolate, during the interview years. >> then he writes modi dick. in my mind the greatest american novel ever written. and unfortunately it was banned by the critics. and it really marked the end, of his literary career. but he kept writing. and when i first move to nantucket, i was excited, because i was going to the land of the -- . and it was a let d

not the outgoing, impulsive sort like melvyn. there's some evidence that he had tried to instruct his wife so he didn't have to meet melvyn. but they did meet, and they spent some time during a rain shower and during a literary picnic. and it clearly ignited something in malveaux. he would then write an anonymous review, not of the scarlet letter but of an earlier group of short stories, and it's anonymous. but it's a love letter to hawthorne. what is interesting is you can see his creative process. what he is walking onto, when we think of hawthorne as writing these perfectly distilled crystal lean short stories about our colonial past. but no, there is so much more in hawthorne. there is the power of blocking us, this is what attracts malveaux. and it's that ability to dive down deep into places that we can't even admit exist, because otherwise we would just lose it all and go insane. and that translates into shakespeare, why do we read shakespeare? he's taking stories about things from an earlier era, and really riding about e

but she was known nationally, and she was a star of stage, she was married to melvyn douglas, the actor. and she became involved in california politics, and was a progressive and began to speak a lot on behalf of democratic candidates. she won election to the house, for a couple of terms in the 1940s. and she wasn't really a legislator per se. she wasn't introducing a lot of bills, and she's not what we would call a legislative entrepreneur. but she was a spokes person for progressive issues. she would often come onto the floor, and talk about improving housing, to an african american, civil rights, and so she was known as a great speech maker. so here is a campaign bill, or poster which advertises speaking gauge mints that douglas made in 1948. and it happens in oakland, which is far from her district. so you get the sense that she was on the speaking circuit a lot, speaking for democratic candidates and democratic issues. she serves a couple of terms in the house, and in the near and in the early 19 fifties, she decides to run for the u.s. senate, and she goes to the primary, the demo

know melvyn director of international security studies of the u.k.'s royal united services institute and bonnie glaser director of the china power project at the center for strategic and international studies to both of you we appreciate your time in your insights tonight thank you. european nations are restarting astra zeneca vaccinations today the european medicines agency the e m a said once again that the drug is safe and highly effective germany france italy and spain are among the countries lifting their bam the and they concluded that the vaccine was not associated with an overall increase in the risk of blood clots it was that fear that led more than a dozen european union countries to pose their vaccinations with the astra zeneca shot the e m a says the benefits of the shot outweigh the risks but it is not ruling out completely the possibility of a link to rare blood clots meanwhile the british medicines regulator the m h r a has also spoken out in favor of the continued use of the afters and a good vaccine in a statement it says the benefits

the brain child of melvyn then -- . sweet guy, he's an anti hero.ut realistic intercity america in which he becomes a vigilante that fights quote unquote the man. i thought that what we may do is watch a brief trailer of sweet back, to give you an idea of how the film was presented to a predominantly black audience. so with that in mind, i will share the screen, and we watched the first 40 seconds or so. of the sweet sweet back trailer. it was rated x because of the violence and sexual context. and you see it on the movie post movie poster, and it says you know the tagline is, you bled my mama, you bled my papa, you will not believe me. ♪ ♪ ♪ they blend your mama they blood my pop-up they won't believe me. they won't bleed me. sweet sweet back, required it became required viewing by members of the black panther party. it was that incendiary, and that revolutionary. i do not know if you caught it, but this was how the film ended. dedicated to all the brothers and sisters, we have had enough of the man. in a 42nd clip, that is what blaxploitation is a