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...Norfolk & Western, normally one of the most profitable, had a 23% earnings decline. The N. & W. managed, however, to set another sort of record. Pulled and pushed by eight diesel engines, a supertrain of 450 coal cars moved over 47 miles of N. & W. track to set a freight-train record for U.S. railroads. Any motorist caught at a grade crossing had to wait ten minutes for the supertrain to pass...
...Hentoff blessed him as one of "the precipitously emergent singers of folk songs in the continuing renascence of that self-assertive tradition." Self-deceptive would be more accurate. Dylan was just another work shirt and guitar buried under hyperbolic interpretation of stock songs ("House of the Rising Sun," "Freight Train Blues"). The words had him then, ballooned his voice with folksy groans and rips, all upbeat enthusiasm and innocence. The Folksinger...
What is happening is a dream of sorts, a very important, very fierce and tender, dream. Let the others hop back door, blue San Francisco Bay freight trains. For Dylan, "The Knigdoms of experience in the precious winds they rot." The winds push him underground into dreams "no words but these to tell what's true"--into artistic anarchy where can make new sounds, new words, new effects out of old materials...
...evoke all the romantic passion contained in Elizabeth Barrett Browning's How Do I Love Thee? In a short Chinese poem, Bernard Bragg, who studied under Marcel Marceau, creates visual haiku with the line "a wave carries the moon away and the tidal water comes with its freight of stars," by forming a crescent with his upraised hand, then slowly lowering it over an undulating outstretched palm. The signing of Joe Velez makes more hilarious sense out of Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky than the words ever do when spoken...
...would be detrimental. And it left untouched an ar rangement under which the Penn Central, if the ICC approves, would first lend $25 million to the beleaguered New Haven to keep it going; the Penn Central would ultimately acquire the New Haven and maintain its red-inked passenger and freight services...