Word: joans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...left us marching on the road. And said how heavy was the load . . . Won't you listen to the lambs, Bobby? They're crying for you." This appeal, in a new song by left-hearted Folk Singer Joan Baez, seems to have been answered by her friend Bob Dylan. The Minnesota-born troubadour, who in recent years abandoned his ballads of protest (Masters of War, The Times They Are A-Changin') to celebrate such bland delights as country pie and copper kettles, is out with a new single in the old angry mode, mourning the death...
...When Joan arrived in Washington, the youngest-and some thought the prettiest-of the Kennedy wives, she entered the world of the Kennedys at its dazzling height. Now, nine years, two assassinations and a fatal accident later, that has all changed. She knows the hatred and passions the Kennedy name inspires, lives daily with the threats that come with unnerving frequency against her husband's life. "I don't want to be First Lady," she has said repeatedly, and her friends believe her. Says one intimate: "She is terrified that things are moving in such a way that...
Lissome, leggy, striking, Joan, 36, ought to be a visible asset to any campaign. On the hustings she does her part diligently. The last election, for Ted's re-election to the Senate in 1970, fought in the shadow of Chappaquiddick, was very clearly a strain on her; yet she gamely made the rounds of banquets and teas. Says Kathy Beatty, one of her closest friends: "I wondered for a while how she was going to get through those rough times, but she did it. That was when I felt she had moxie...
...record, Joan has put Chappaquiddick in the past, and she believes that others have. In recent months, she has grown increasingly impatient with the public's insatiable curiosity about her. "Joan is not basically an outgoing person," says Kathy Beatty. And Joan admits that despite the starry existence people imagine she leads, "my life is rather lonely. When we entertain, it's just a few for dinner. And once in a while a bigger buffet-usually after a concert." There are also long hours spent presiding over family affairs. The Kennedy home in suburban McLean, Va., is superbly...
...shadow. Although she is not a gifted professional musician, she does play very well, and her favorable reviews are a source of gratification. "She wants it for her own identity," Kathy Beatty agrees. Yet the yearning for privacy is there too. Asked for an adjective to describe herself recently, Joan thought for a moment and suggested, "Vulnerable. I guess that...