Word: substrata
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...need manifested clearly in the historical coincidence of the civil rights movement and the anti-Vietnam protests. This is the need to believe "we shall overcome"--easily, dramatically, totally, and soon. Dylan's later music is far more challenging, more realistic (though not at all compromised), digging up the substrata of human pain, anger, and despair. The irony is that if we could respond to these songs as energetically, we would probably be far closer than ever to exorcising evil in a human world...
While the outline of the Fitzgerald saga has been on the billboards for decades there is a whole new substrata of events and personalities running through these letters. In February of 1922 Fitzgerald wrote Perkins about Tom Boyd who "runs the book page in The St. Paul Daily News, which he has made the best book page west of the Hudson. Altogether, according to my scrapbook my name has appeared on it over forty times since I came to St. Paul. (These two sentences look funny together! Ha-Ha!" Then three years later Perkins writes Fitzgerald "Tom's book...