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Hanna Calls Bob Dylan 'Non-Social AnarchistDuring Lecture In Conference Theatre MondayBy PETER LEDERMANFaced with the extremdy diffi-cult task of constructing unity and meaning in Bob Dylan’s works, Tom Hanna spoke to an overflow student crowd last Monday,lMt Banna is presently the Assistant 'Director for University Relations and has taught freshman English at the University, The subject of his lecture was Desolation and the Solid Chrome Diplomat/* Mr. Hanna plowed •through Dylan’s always poignant but sometimes obscure words, in a manner that pointed out Hanna’s own desire for better understanding.The audience was presented with a fifteen minute pre-lecture taping of Dylan songs and then, frequent recordings of Mr, Hanna’s thoughts and impressions spoken above the music. The students at the lecture seemed quite familiar with the music and lips moved to create a murmuring chorus.NOW OPEN * . .m a Ico Inn’smusic shoppeIU.3142 MAIN STREET 837-9324Tom Henna read* selections af Dylan.Mr, Hanna traced the growth of Dylan’s mind through his six albums and the poetry that appears on their covers. His discussion of the latest L.P. centered upon Dylan as imagist and his own concept of Dylan as a “Non-Social Anarchist, He described the poetry as possessing no aesthetic, and being neither Camp, op-art nor pop-art.Mr. Hanna continued by saying that the most recent record, Highway 61 Revisited, contains poetic elements from all the pre-i -—lvious ones and is therefore the work to best, explain his ideas. He related how Dylans image of outlaw and inhabitant of Desolation Row” was typical of the poetic need to experience life from its poverty and chaos to its ease.The lecture reflected a need for people to come to terms with a brilliant and rapidly rising young mind that refuses to let you know where it's at.OFFICIAL EThe Official Bulletin if an authorised publication of the State University of New York et Buffalo, for which the SPECTRUM assumes no editorial responsibility. Notices should be sent in C TYPEWRITTEN form to 114 Hayes Hell, attention Mrs. Fischer, before 2 p.m. the Friday C prior to the week of publication. Student organization notices are not accepted for publication.GENERAL NOTICES University College students (except those on strict academic probet ion) — registration for next ^ semester, September 1966 is as follows:March 7 through March 11 K, L, O.
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Buffalo Spectrum
Buffalo, New York, US
Fri, Mar 04, 1966
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