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reuruary ai hi iwui iv/i miuv•IV *V UV IV I I vFriends Of Us All” — Mister Bob Dylanby Bill BuczakFrom the depressing scene of Easton, Pa., to Route 22 and beyond, past gas stations with hundreds of cars waiting for their two dollars worth. Into Port Authority, past a group of Irish nationalists, past a manGthetically asking “Anybody ve a ticket?” past Bob Dylan T-shirts. Bob Dylan posters. Bob Dylan portraits, Bob Dylan photographs. Bob Dylan tickets (2 for $50), past them all with four tickets stapled to my chest, past them all and through the gates of Madison Square Garden. And the experience of a lifetime was about to begin.I’ve been a Dylan freak for five years. I have all his albums, half a dozen bootlegs, and every damn Dylan book In existence. George Harrison’s inspired introduction —and now I'd like to bring on a friend of us all, Mister Bob Dylan - sUII sends chills up and down my spine. I’ve suffered through the mediocrity of Self-Portrait the hideous Billy the Kid soundtrack, the atrocious set of Columbia outtakes packaged under the name Dylan. Jann Wenner of “Rolling Slone” once said he’d buy an album of Dylanbreathing heavily; I guess I would, too. For despite it all, the Dylan mystiqu- would still be there.Tne “writers and critics,'wno prophesize with their pens haw-spent hundreds of thousands of words trying to analyze it, trying to find some basis for the mass appeal of Dylan, the Dylan whose vocals leave something to be desired, whose guitar skills are merely average, and whose harmonica playing frequently degenerates into ear-vexing discordance. I certainly cannot provide the universal end-all answer, but for me at least, Dylan has somehow provided a key to my own expression, to my own self-understanding. From the poignance of “Bob Dylan’s Dream, a song of the agony of leaving adolescence (“With haunted hearts through the heat and cold/We never thought we could get very old; We thought we could alt forever in fun/But our chances really were a million to one”), to the sadness of lost love in Tomorrow is a Long Time (There’s beauty in the silver, singing’ river/There’s beauty In the sunrise in the sky/But none of these and nothing else canrui iiisiaim-. a m-oiii ui uiic person in tennis singles could make the same amount of points by winning a championship as a co-ordinaieu team of seven football.playdrs.The Joint Athletics Obmmittee concluded that if few people participate on a certain team sport, they should receive fewer points for winning.In other business, the 1975-76 academic calendar was announced. An interesting new feature is the addition of a short break in October, from the 16th through the 19th, which will serve to break up the eleven straight weeks of classes from the beginning of the semester to the Thanksgiving break.Any student interested in working on the Faculty Evaluations Ad-Hoc Committee should contact Cathy Patterson. Box 444.touch the beautv/That 1 remember In my true love’s eyes), and to the ultimate triumph over adversity in “When the Ship Comes In (And the words that are used for to get the ship confused/Will not be understood as they’re spoken/For the chains of the sea will have busted In the night/And will be buried at the bottom of the ocean) there is always present a fundamental reality, honesty, and ring ofContinued on page three
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Easton Lafayette
Easton, Pennsylvania, US
Fri, Feb 15, 1974
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