Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...LILY" DOESN'T have the same kind of verbal or poetic content Dylan's earlier lyrical marathons did. It uses short words to tell a story of jealousy, revenge, robbery and murder in the Old West. But it only tells us so much; most of the "plot" is missing or only present obliquely. We never find out who the Jack of Hearts is, or what happens to him when it's all over. You feel the song could be twenty times as long: there's room for that much more detail. What Dylan has included is just a slice...
...think anyone who makes a film is an obsessed person. I'm obsessed by the picture's content, whether this disease of ours can permeate the air, change people, make some imprint. It's something that you don't want to do every day because it is sick. It's like you're on a toboggan and you're going down a hill and you don't give a damn about anything as long as you can do this one thing. We've broken ourselves, broken our lives, gone into debt but that's the least of it. We break...
...intellectual does. But the only thread connecting his view of society with an intellectual's is the same starting material. An intellectual places what he sees on some historical yardstick; Cassavetes grabs the historical second and expresses it as a universal eternity. While analysing a picture's content allows the intellectual and the artist to compare notes, there comes a point when you have to accept an artist on his own terms. That is, if an artist's work eludes your mind but smacks your viscera, well, then maybe it's time to hang up the old cerebral touchstone...
...NSCAR will continue its efforts to build a "united front" by creating a steering committee so large as to be unconvenable. The coordinators are, with the addition of two more, the same as for old NSCAR, the national staff remains the same. In a word, the conference is quite content with the progress it makes and wishes to do more of the same. It even trusts the old coordinators so much as to accept an election for the new coordinators where the nominees are not allowed to state their views, nor even to stand up and identify themselves...
Outside on the Florida beach, men 15 or 20 years his junior were content to lounge in complacent retirement, but the pink-cheeked, white-haired, blocky figure stumping the hotel corridors was clearly just rounding into top form at the age of 80. Trailing cigar smoke and the unmistakable evanescence of power, AFL-CIO President George Meany last week took firm command of the annual assembly of the nation's labor chieftains at the elegant resort town of Bal Harbour, Fla. When he was through, Meany had displayed his consummate mastery of the labor movement and strengthened his position...