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...HARD TO SAY exactly what prompted the current tour, but Dylan seems to be trying to heal old wounds, to bring together all the disparate people he has influenced and been influenced by. There's Ramblin' Jack Elliott, just a relic of his Woody Guthrie days--rumor has it his voice was plain then. He had to change registers in Providence on Tuesday to handle the chorus of "Friends of the Devil." Bobby Neuwirth harbored bitterness towards Dylan at one time because he felt that he could have been a superstar if he had gone commercial the way Dylan...
...timing wasn't right, either. Only two years earlier students had staged a sit-in at University Hall, an event that paralyzed and polarized the Faculty. There hadn't been enough time to heal the wounds, let alone talk about restructuring the College. And there was something else: two other Ivy League colleges, Yale and Princeton, were themselves undergoing self-scrutiny in the form of educational commissions, and it seemed logical to wait and see what they would produce...
...mobbed" in Alabama by a group of friendly blacks. "Isn't that right?" he bellowed at a state trooper stationed by the door. "Yes siree, Guvnor," came the loyal reply. Said an observer: "It was almost as if he were presenting himself as the man uniquely qualified to heal the race wounds in America and even further afield...
...They suggested that executives read daily from Scriptures and hold weekly Bible study meetings in the board room; they even ordered that a secretary be fired for dating a disgruntled minority shareholder who Yale thought was "possessed by demons." On one occasion Yale came upon two engineers trying to heal an ailing computer. Says Yale: "I placed my hands on the computer, made a silent prayer and asked God to give the engineers insight to fix the computer." Yale claims that it started...
Also, linebacker Eric Kurzweil is having shoulder problems, which seems to be one of those nagging injuries that football players must endure. It would heal itself if Kurzweil could have two weeks of rest, but under the grind of the schedule the shoulders were reaggravated each week...