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...Lighten Every Load. Dylan revealed that he has written "a whole bag of new songs" for a U.S. tour he is talking about launching in the next month or so. But the tour will be a lot different-slower, less frantic-from his tours before the motorcycle accident. In those days, says Dylan, "I was going at a tremendous speed . . . I was on the road for almost five years. It wore me down. I was on drugs, a lot of things. A lot of things just to keep going, you know? And I don't want to live that...
...interviewer that many writers and college students were "tremendously hung-up" over his words and asked if he felt any responsibility to them, Dylan begged off. "Boy, if I could ease someone's mind, I'd be the first one to do it. I want to lighten every load. Straighten out every burden. I don't want anybody to be hung-up-especially over me, or anything I do. That's not the point...
...Although it believes the Senate version will result in less short-term revenue loss, the Treasury Department has placed its imprimatur on both bills. Few Congressmen or Senators will be able to face their constituents in next year's elections unless they can show that they tried to lighten the taxpayer's load...
...intellectual community which is not committed to an official policy which it may have played a part in concocting. However, this is not to say that the university's refusal to service certain outside groups would deprive them of any essential output. Action against the university may lighten the burden of the soul, but it will have only a limited effect in achieving wider change...
Since we have not made a careful study of the operations of the Dean's office, it would be presumptuous of us to offer recommendations bearing on its organization. We have been made aware of a variety of proposals designed to lighten the Dean's burdens. Some, such as those advanced by the Dunlop Committee, would provide him with more functional assistance, to deal with such subjects as budgets, personnel, the curriculum, fund-raising, governmental relations, student affairs, and the like. Others, including one emanating from a member of our Committee, would provide three area Deans (or Associate Deans...