Word: baez
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another in the same mold is Jay Worrall, 23, a Virginia-born physics grad from Earlham College who marched on London's Trafalgar Square with Folk Singer Joan Baez in a 1965 antiwar demonstration. Last week Worrall, in striped shirt and sweat-stained Levi's, was humming a different tune as he sweated in the dust of Phu Cuong, twelve miles northwest of Saigon, building homes for Vietnamese refugees. An adept at the ancient art of cumshaw and cajolery, Worrall overcomes the perennial shortages of materials by canvassing battlefields in a borrowed "deuce-and-a-half...
...wails that came out of the Orient last month when Folk Singer Joan Baez, 26, was on a tour of Japan. And the noise was not just protest songs. Joan complained bitterly that the CIA had pressured her Japanese interpreter into censoring her public comments about Viet Nam and the Bomb. But when she returned to San Francisco and called a press conference, all Joan wanted to talk about was love and peace. Newsmen persisted: What about those dark tales of CIA meddling? "We don't have a shred of evidence," admitted Joan's manager. Then the alleged...
When one song triggers only three uprisings, she composes another she is sure will be a blockbuster: "A Molotov cocktail or two/ Will blow up the boys in blue." Could it be Joan Baez...
...Joan Baez thinks so. In fact, she's so sure Al Capp's cartoon character is a take-off on her that she has demanded an apology and the immediate execution of the comic strip abomination. "Either out of ignorance or malice," she wailed, "he has made being for peace equal to being for Communism, the Viet Cong and narcotics." Just as captiously, the cartoonist growled that Joanie wasn't Joan. "She should remember that protest singers don't own protest. When she protests about others' rights to protest, she is killing the whole racket...
NOEL (Vanguard). Mostly traditional Christmas carols sung by the silvery knife-thin voice of Joan Baez to the accompaniment of recorders, viols and the like. Not her best but still appealing and direct...