Word: dylan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Blue feels part of an even older tradition, though. In fact, he believes he is carrying the mantle of the great storytellers of all time, including himself among such epic figures as Homer, Vergil and Dante, as well as Bob Dylan, B.B. King, and John Coltrane. Albert B. Lord, Porter Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature, and lecturer in Hum 9b, Oral and Popular Literature, calls Blue "sui-generis" though. Lord believes that Blue "does not really belong to any particular tradition in storytelling." He says that Blue relies on autobiographical material in an improvisational...
...kids they logged a lot of time in front of the tube watching the late show. Gable, not Dylan, became their hero; Carousel, not Hair, their fantasy musical. Grown up, their look is zoot-suit city: double-breasted and pin-stripe for the gents, shoulder pads and scarlet lipstick for the lady. The New York quintet call themselves Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band, and their RCA debut LP is this season's breakaway disco act. The sound: musical gliss that ripples across five decades and combines Hollywood star dust and big-band elegance with Afro-Cuban cross...
...Dylan's Pleasure Dome
...television special was bad enough, but this new mansion goes too far Has Bob Dylan [Sept. 20], who for years wanted only to inform society of its wrongs, become as money hungry as some of those rock bands...
...obvious need to demonstrate that he is no mere regional candidate. He seeks approval from voters of almost every conceivable description and, in the process, often ventures into a political wilderness. He quotes Kierkegaard ("Every man is an exception") and Dylan Thomas ("Great is the hand that holds dominion over/ man by a scribbled name"). He discusses his attitudes on death and "ethnic purity," analyzes the biblical injunction against adultery and admits he has been "tempted to judge other people without charity since I was a small child...