Word: minnesota
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Calif. 2, Minnesota 1 (first...
ROCK IT TO 'EM, said the placards at the University of Minnesota. At the University of Kansas, it was TO HELL WITH NIXON. In his visits to the two states, Rockefeller seemed to be establishing his campaign pattern: forays to key non-primary states in which he combines attention-getting campus capers with sedate wooing of convention delegates. How many delegates he swayed was uncertain, but the Governor did famously among the students...
...characters. 3) The stories in his songs: he's put plots with beginnings and endings and protagonists other than himself into the songs. Some of his earlier songs--Corrina, Corrina, and Honey, Just Allow Me One More Chance -- are heavy imitations of Country & Western sound. Dylan comes from Hibbing, Minnesota, a town he describes with great amusement on the printed insert that comes with The Times They Are A-Changin'. A college classmate of the wife of a former editor of mine went to high school with Dylan, and said he was small and nobody talked...
...Jewish? Wicked Messenger is a parable for Moses leading the Jews out of Egypt; the song echoes Dylan's earlier messages of the importance of believing in something and working with pepole. He is Jewish; about two years ago there was a press report that he was back in Minnesota for his brother's Bar Mitzvah. But the blessing is lost on him because he clearly grew up being taught both ends of the Bible. It's in all his songs...
...McCarthy said that he is going it alone into what he regards as the vital primaries in Oregon and California. The Minnesota senator said his showing will be better in Oregon and that California offers him his best chance of winning...