Word: wesley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dylan of John Wesley Harding appears touched with grace. The snarling pieties of Highway 61 Revislited, the lucid and patient degeneration in Blonde on Blonde, seem to have been blotted from his memory. Instead, Dylan reaches further into his past for a starting point--and only a starting-point. The new album is a unique and advanced product...
...John Wesley Harding represents for Dylan a quantum jump in style from what he was doing before he dropped out of sight. The unexpected discontinuity requires an explanation. The new record is haunted by tramps and prophets, robber-chieftains and gypsies, called forth one by one in solemn incantation. However, these particular outcasts of society are unlike, and handled differently from, the junkies and petulant girls who used to trouble Dylan...
...contrast, to express the same concern for the world's materialism in John Wesley Harding, he uses a Lonesome Hobo and coupled with a warning...
...details, and imagery, of the songs in John Wesley Harding are far removed from contemporary life, and there is a new preaching tone...
Cambridge police last Saturday arrested nine people selling the 18th issue of Avatar in Harvard Square; among the nine were two Harvard students--Jared Rossman '71 and Wesley R. White...