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...concerts, Baez would mimic him and demand that he return to the "movement" that spawned him. In a conversation with Michael March of Fusion magazine in 1969, Dylan said he hadn't seen her in two years. She must have been scared off by the electricity and morbid lyrics, he speculated, but he still loved her "even if she is straddled on peace and some punk ex-resident-from-college-kid (David Harris...
There was, to be sure, a morbid Kipling, the bitter recluse who lost a son (in World War I) and a daughter, and until his death in 1936 retreated more and more into the confines of his Sussex home, "a grey stone, lichened house-A.D. 1654 over the door." But there was also Kipling the solid burgher of his middle years, who married an American woman and settled down as a country gentleman for four years in Brattleboro, Vt., who became a friend of Cecil Rhodes and the enemy of every Liberal Member of Parliament, regularly depicted in Kipling...
...burden of supervising machines that are just there for show. People practicing on the new machines in Memorial Hall last week, after the hand-print plan had been called off, seemed more amused than outraged, but the spectre of the penitentiary is still there. The identimats continue to inspire morbid humor about guillotine attachments and what not. It would take a first-class selling job to overcome the visceral loathing these electronic wonders inspire...
...French National Assembly's Foreign Affairs Committee, has pointed out at least one possible consolation of the post-Viet Nam period: "It is always good to be dealing with a reality-and Viet Nam was not a reality." To many Europeans, Viet Nam was simply a morbid obsession that kept America from placing its energies where its foreign policy interests really lay-namely, in the wholesome dream of a strong, united Western Europe...
...mass audience, the old regionalist's pronouncements were oracular. He was, after all, a reformed modernist: up to 1918 he had painted "lifeless symbolist and cubist pictures," full of "my aesthetic drivelings and morbid self-concerns." He had studied in Paris, the Antichrist's lair. So he could be believed. The rhetoric never altered; he was too ancient a drummer for that. The circumstances of his career did, and violently. For a brief time, the decade ending in 1939, he-with John Steuart Curry and Grant Wood-bestrode and dominated the taste of America. His emergence, however...