Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Maybe you know the myth, maybe you don't. It simply doesn't matter. Forget all your preconceptions about Bob Dylan--the poet-troubadour, the over-rated 60's protest-song writer, Mr. "Blowin' in the Wind", or even the man with a voice that sounds like a cat choking on a hairball. It simply doesn't matter--Live 1996 will surprise Dylan-lovers, haters and I-don't-knowers alike...
...never Dylan's desire to be an icon. He never meant to be compartmentalized as a protest-song writer. Indeed, his refusal to play at Woodstock and his later Christian revival period speak very strongly to his discomfort of being idolized as the father of a generation. Live 1966 was another repudiation. This is the angriest that you will ever hear...
...linked erroneously to a 150 year history, was actually only solidified in the mid-1970s at a time when all-male Harvard felt threatened by an influx of lower class and non-white students and was beginning a reluctant merger with Radcliffe. The current form was one of protest, in which cross-casting moved from a reluctant necessity to the central tenant...
...Saturday, Munroe gathered with about 100 other Cambridge residents to protest what demonstrators say has become an endemic problem: wanton evictions and heartless rent increases throughout the city...
...says that throughout Cambridge, landlords evict residents to fill the vacancies with higher-paying tenants, and also harass tenants who organize and protest...