00:03Howard would sit at this old black upright typewriter.
00:07It was a 1932 monster of a typewriter, mechanical, where you really had to strike the keys with gusto.
00:14And he'd sit down there and he would type for hours.
00:17He was self-condemned to be in his office every day at his typewriter.
00:23The young people who came of age in the 30s, like Howard, had the dream of making society just.
00:36His books were all about that. He wanted to change the world.
00:42One of the first things that got him interested in communism was a pamphlet by George Bernard Shaw that he found in the library.
00:48He said that that sparked an interest in him.
00:52Howard's political beliefs, whether defined under a communist banner or not, are irrelevant.
00:59He believed that this was the greatest country on earth.
01:04The tragedy of America is that often we fall away from our own ideals.
01:09Our ideals are beautiful, but we don't always fulfill them in practice.
01:14He saw that those were great ideals and that it was worth his life and his soul to try to bring America to them.
01:23He thought that the word could change the world.
01:27Whether you agree with him or not, you have to admire the man for standing there and putting himself on the line.
01:33His progressive stance on many important issues of the day resonated with Pablo Picasso, Eleanor Roosevelt, Pablo Neruda, and any number of scientists.
01:46Julio Curie, many, many people were in touch with him because they understood what drove him.
01:52And that was social justice, human equality, brotherhood of man, and an end of war.
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