Word: malvina
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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YESTERDAY IS TOMORROW by Malvina Hoffman. 378 pages. Crown...
Overalls to Ban-the-Bomb. The song was written in the front seat of an automobile, while Songwriter Malvina Reynolds was ticktacktooling along down San Francisco's Skyline Boulevard. At the moment of inspiration, tract houses were pressing in on the road from all sides. Two hours later, she had finished music and lyrics and was performing the song before an audience that liked it so much they laughed all the way back to their boxes...
...Malvina Reynolds, 63, wife of a retired carpenter, has been writing new folk songs for about 15 years. She has a Ph.D. in literature from the University of California in Berkeley, where her thesis was about a medieval folk tale. Her first songs were sung by Pete Seeger and the group that evolved into The Weavers, and she has been supplying the folk-singing boom ever since...
...Ticky-Tacky Students." A handsome, grey-haired woman with hazel eyes, Malvina Reynolds says she prefers to make her points quietly. "Lashing out is self-defeating," she explains. "It raises hackles." For all that, there are probably a lot of vertical hackles in the housing developments along Skyline Boulevard. Mrs. Reynolds herself lives in an apartment. "Conformity is not a really dreadful thing," she says, "but it's fun to prod it a little...