Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more symptom of this nation's rapidly spreading cancer is the addition of some 30,000 more troops to the riot-control brigades in Washington, D.C., in preparation for the Poor People's March [May 3]. It is very sad that this country's attitude, and especially the attitude of Congress, has been completely negative toward this demonstration, even before the Rev. Abernathy presents his requests. An avalanche of legislation is needed and it will only begin to right the wrongs to the poor people of this country. But my fellow Americans, following in the footsteps...
...personal level of experience, Dylan and the characters of his songs (most of whom are "I") never worry about the past or future. But most of his songs are based on echoing previous abstracted intellectual experience (like what Woody Guthrie meant to him or religious imagery in Sad-eyed Lady of the Lowlands). Maybe what he has read is sort of a "cumulative present" in his mind. But those are just words. The way he works his past abstracted experience into his songs, thus interpreting the present, is remarkable...
Even people who confused the Kentucky Derby with the roller derby know by this time the sad story of Dancer's Image: how he roared through the stretch to beat the favored Forward Pass by a length and a half only to be disqualified three days later because his post-race urinalysis had shown a trace of the illegal painkilling drug phenylbutazone...
...sad. These narodniki are a sad lot. They have toothaches, and they are sick, and they are hungry, and bored. Fat, black mamas rearrange clothes inside the shelters, and when they get through with that, they sit outside on boxes and trunks. The view is lousy, too. All they can do is look through the trees and across the shallow water of the Reflecting Pool at the office workers in shirtsleeves...
...best thing for being sad," replied Merlyn, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honor trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then-to learn." -The Sword in the Stone...