Word: hollows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DYLAN: HIGHWAY 61 REVISITED (Columbia). Having breathed new strife into folk music's repertoire, Dylan's muse seems a little winded, and some of his new delirious diatribes have a wheezy, hollow sound. Devotees will still enjoy his rasping version of his hit tune, Like a Rolling Stone, as well as his eleven-minute talking blues, Desolation Row, where "everybody is making love or else expecting rain...
...voice was cracked and harsh, his eyes as hollow as his campaign coffers. Yet even as New Yorkers streamed to the polls, John Vliet Lindsay loped urgently from block to block, borough to borough, croaking a threnody that had become as familiar and unique to the streets of New York as the carp of cab drivers or the yawp of fire trucks...
Like most mountaineers, Floyd has tried his luck up North; he worked in an Indiana foundry, tenant-farmed in Ohio. Each time, he came back as soon as he could save a few dollars. "You're all the time homesick when you ain't in this hollow," says Handshoe. "It bothered me fierce. In a city you got a certain job, and you go to the store and buy from one mess to the next. You can't get credit in a place like Ohio. Just about any store around here will give you credit...
...tough. I studied the calendar and the almanac, and the soonest I can do it is around the ninth or tenth of next month." Then there is the hillbilly's fundamentalist religion, ever inveighing against sins of the city. Two years ago, at a revival meeting in Handshoe Hollow's Holiness Church, snake handling was part of the ritual -until one of the faithful grabbed a purely satanic copperhead, got bitten and nearly died...
Most important to the mountaineer is his own and his neighbor's instinctive respect for individual dignity. Approached by a newspaper photographer in Handshoe Hollow last week, a woman warned: "I don't want my likeness struck." A mountaineer's likeness is as private as his still, and the photographer who strikes it without asking is likely to get struck back. That very independence is one of the major obstacles blocking the mountaineer's assimilation into the 20th century. In the world's most mobile, adaptable society, he does not want to move or adapt...