A forty-minute commencement address. They're lucky their president didn't invite Fidel Castro, or it would have been four hours.
This is what passed for great literature in the early 1970's?
It's become routine for colleges to invite commencement speakers like this -- a lacklustre assortment of airheads, criminals and political hacks. Many of them are booed, some just put everybody to sleep. Brokaw, Biden, Hedges, Abu, etal. Why anybody bothers to attend these spectacles is a mystery to me.