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...mannerisms matter far less than the value of his honest complaints. He is an advocate of little men, and if he remains one himself, it only enriches the ring of his lyrics?as in his best song, Blowin' in the Wind, an anthem for the whole lost crowd he speaks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Folk Singers: Let Us Now Praise Little Men | 5/31/1963 | See Source »

...answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Folk Singers: Let Us Now Praise Little Men | 5/31/1963 | See Source »

...green cow pasture. Well, they was. And somebody had tuk and drawed white lines all over it and drove posts in it and Ah don't know what-all, and Ah looked down thar and Ah seen five or six convicts a-runnin' up & down and a-blowin' whistles. They was . . . And friends, Ah seen that evenin' the awfullest fight that Ah have ever seen in mah life. Ah did. They would run at one another and kick one another and th'ow one another down and stomp on one another and grind their feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: What It Is, Is Talk | 1/18/1954 | See Source »

...Picayune (109,825), almost lived up to its slogan: "The Journal Covers Dixie Like the Dew." Atlanta newsmen used to wisecrack: "Yeah, it's all wet!" For the Journal had grown fat and stodgy; its editorial stand was typified by an annual piece called March Comes in A-Blowin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Big Deal in Georgia | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...they want to be standin' there when the lead poured in? They wanted to be home readin' a book or teachin' their kid c-a-t spells cat or takin' a woman out into the country in an open car with the wind blowin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATRE: New Play in Manhattan: Apr. 27, 1936 | 4/27/1936 | See Source »

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