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...group" is a comfortable array of friends, mostly old with a few new -Folksinger Joan Baez, ex-Byrd Roger McGuinn, Nashville Star Ronee Blakley and even Poet Allen Ginsberg. "We were all very close," Dylan told TIME Correspondent James Willwerth. "We had this fire going ten years ago, and now we've got it burning again...
...Kennedys answered the call, and the Senator and his wife looked on approvingly when Mrs. Sadat gave a 4,500-year-old alabaster vase to the Kennedy Center. Later they came in phalanx-Rose, Eunice, Teddy and Joan-to Anderson House, where Sadat was the host. The aura of well being floated through the house, normally the home of the Society of the Cincinnati, descendants of the officers of George Washington's army...
...unlikely that we'll ever find out the story behind his reunion with Joan Baez. Bob and Joan go back a long time. In the early days in the Village, he thought her voice too pretty, that the world was ugly and needed to be sung about in harsh tones. But she fell in love with him -- he aroused this wierd maternal feeling in her, the way he seems to with most women who he meets. She took him along on one of her big tours and endured him when he got drunk and self-indulgent (he was once booed...
...assuming they would perform together. But when they got to Europe she was shunted aside. Dylan was contemplating a change to electric music, becoming increasingly suspicious about the press, and drawing closer to himself. It was a prolific period for him, but he was hell to be with and Joan finally picked up and left...
Before the stage curtains opened again, the voices of Dylan and Baez came over the sound system harmonizing on "Blowin' in the Wind." The curtain came up and revealed them leaning into a shared microphone. "Bob Dylan and Joan Baez," Dylan barked in his best impressario voice into the applause that followed the song. They did a couple of more songs together, her arm draped casually around his neck, and then he left...