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...almost accidental, involuntary. While his musical contemporaries were becoming mirrors of society, Dylan, almost in spite of himself, became its conscience, a reluctant Eumenide. Instead of warbling teen-age love songs, he wrote about bigotry, nuclear destruction, war profiteers and social desolation. Dylan was background for a campus rap session, inspiration for an essay. He was the brooding presence uniting thousands of unsatisfied students, a pioneer who purged the inanities from popular music with surrealistic epigrams and metaphysical subtleties...
...when Garment or Buzhardt raised objections, Rhyne, seated at a table apart from them, muttered: "Those sons of bitches." Just what the estrangement means in terms of Miss Woods' relationship with the President in the whole tapes tangle was not yet clear. But she obviously was not taking the rap for the full obliteration of the Haldeman tape as it apparently had been assumed she would...
Evans said the refocus on writing is necessary to make expos "a writing course, not a discussion group and not a rap session." The central core of curriculum would give freshmen in different sections common ground for discussion, he said...
...years of perfecting his band's performance, and if it's half as exciting as his live appearances, his debut should sell a million among local fans alone. Skinny James is a sizzling blues harpist; he also sings better than Paul Butterfield, and is a master of the extended rap-turns-into-a-song type of blues. The great misfortune of his national tours will be the time they usurp from his appearances in Boston. If you want good blues this weekend, the drive to Boston College is worth the trouble...
...probably prepared by now for a feminist rap. But it's obvious, isn't it, what King has done? She has won male privileges for the ladies. Which is as old as Suffragette Reform, half a century old to be exact. And in 1973, that's settling for a sorry second. It's bargaining for equality without questioning the social systems that institutionalize inequality -- rather like to bail a boat on the bottom...