Word: hardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tennessee, Arkansas and possibly Georgia, states in which Wallace and Nixon are likely to cut into each other's vote. Nixon has good prospects in Texas, Florida, Virginia and the Carolinas. But the dominant characteristic of the South this year is that of a region in flux-uncertain, hard to please, and even harder to predict. Therein lies its power...
...matter of getting people to work whose tribal ethics disdain labor or money. "Africanized" companies have other personnel problems. Where once an African hand would take orders from a white, he now loathes doing so from a black foreman of another tribe. Too-youthful management also goes down hard with tribesmen accustomed to the rule of the senior elder...
Both songs are written as stories, but it's hard to get more than a feeling of what they mean. One senses in them that something has changed since Blond on Blond...
This is not the same Dylan, glorying in the down and out life of the folk singer. He is angry now, weary of wailing about the hard times...
...Finding the airstrip (in Biafra), that's a problem sometimes," McGuire says. Biafra's sole airstrip is a hard-top road slightly widened by cutting away at the jungle on both sides. It is lit by two rows of lights, none of them very strong. The outboard engines of the four-engine Constellations hang out over the brush, which, if it fouls the engines, means an abrupt end to the flight...