Word: changin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wish they were a changin...
...state of Israel is ironically cast as the Neighborhood Bully, and it summons memories of Dylan back when the times were a-changin'. "The neighborhood bully just lives to survive/ He's criticized and condemned for being alive/ He's not supposed to fight back, he's supposed to have thick skin/ He's supposed to lay down and die when his door is kicked in/ He's the neighborhood bully." Union Sundown is an agitated piece about how dreams of workers and solidarity have been sold out by greed, while the song that...
Thus it was that the group's chief lyricist, John Lennon, began tuning in on U.S. Folk Singer Bob Dylan (The Times They Are A-Changin'); it wasn't Dylan's sullen anger about life that Lennon found appealing so much as the striving to "tell it like it is." Gradually, the Beatles' work began to tell it too. Their 1965 song, Nowhere Man ("Doesn't have a point of view, knows not where he's going to") asked: "Isn't he a bit like...
...simplicity (for example, is the logical conclusion of "Property of Jesus" an approval of religious fanaticism?). We can criticize his beliefs. But we cannot say he lacks guts. Bob Dylan is no man's lackey. He will always do and sing what he believes. The times they are a changin', but not Dylan. He still has integrity...
...Weatherman faction took its name from a line in a Bob Dylan song: "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows." Cathy Wilkerson seemed oblivious last week to the lesson of another Dylan song: "The times they are a-changin...