:15:02
Don't you wanna tell her where
to get off after 28 years ?
:15:07
Now would you please...
:15:09
dance with me ?
:15:12
Dancing in the dark
:15:15
Until the tune ends
:15:17
We're dancing in the dark
:15:21
And it soon ends
:15:24
We're waltzing
:15:26
ln the wonder
of why we're here--
:15:31
Because of a disagreement
with his commanding general,
:15:33
Ulysses S. Grant was virtually
placed under arrest for
a brief time early in 1862.
:15:38
Who was the commanding general
of the Union army at that time ?
:15:41
Oh, l know that. Uh, Halleck.
General H.W. Halleck.
:15:44
That's correct.
Who was Sebastian Cabot...
:15:48
- and what country was he
in the service of ?
- Hey, Terry.
:15:50
- [ Van Doren ] He was,
uh, an explorer from Spain.
- That's correct.
:15:54
- Who founded the former hub
of the Byzantine Empire,
- Who's that guy in the corner ?
:15:58
- Constantinople ?
- Constantine the First.
:16:00
Charles Van Doren.
:16:02
Charles Van Doren ?
Like Van Doren Van Doren ?
:16:06
- He wants to be on Tic-Tac-Dough ?
- l guess so.
:16:09
- Meriwether Lewis.
- That's it.
:16:12
Who was the editor
of the socialist paper--
:16:14
Oh, this is the guy.
This is the guy
:16:17
l got the guy
l got the guy
:16:19
l got the guy !
:16:22
- [ Door Opening ]
- l got the guy.
:16:25
So l turned to astrophysics,
:16:26
but, of course, as you know,
all the great physicists were
great before the age of 25.
:16:30
[ Chuckling ]
lt just wasn't in the cards.
:16:32
- So l went to Paris and wrote
my novel about a patricide.
- What ?
:16:37
A boy who kills his father.
:16:40
M-My dad liked it
quite a lot, actually,
:16:42
although you could fill Yankee Stadium
with the world's mediocre novelists.
:16:45
And your father
is Carl Van Doren.
:16:47
My uncle. My father
is Mark Van Doren, the poet.
:16:50
He also teaches-- l-l mean,
l also teach at Columbia. Literature.
:16:53
- Same as, uh, same as Dad.
- Oh, same as Dad, huh ? That's nice.
:16:57
Could l ask you
a personal question, Professor ?
:16:59
Actually, l'm not a professor
yet. l'm just an instructor.