Word: buckinghams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...change. Upon Green's departure, keyboard player Christine McVie joined the group, but while her marriage to bassist John McVie sailed smoothly, her betrothal to Fleetwood Mac did little to improve their fortunes. Once again the group shifted its roots, this time by recruiting a Southern California couple, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks. With this duo's song writing, the group recorded its four-million copy seller...
...that he will bring a retinue of 250 people, including a dance troupe called "Heartbeat of Africa." "I will definitely go to London," he said last week, adding that he felt certain that the Queen would be terribly disappointed if he stayed away. In response to this generous offer, Buckingham Palace could emit only a dignified shudder...
Biographer Robert Lacey's task is to relate the woman who happens to live in Buckingham Palace to this "flourishing of the British constitutional monarchy"-one of the more "curious social phenomena of the 20th century," as he rightly observes. It is no easy job, and the word paradox gets used freely. In the end, Lacey, the author of a biography of Sir Walter Raleigh (and a staffer on the London Sunday Times), has spread his cloak over the puddle and gallantly invented a second Elizabeth to walk across it. If this act of prestidigitation is not a work...
...Miscellaneous Part I the entry from Mather 438 came up with a rather caustic response to the question about the hits by The Buckinghams, charging "Name a Buckingham, I dare you--I double dare you." Meanwhile, grad student Robert Landsman insisted that the everyday housewife gave up "pills" for me. Pretty big sacrifice...
Died. Roland Hayes, 89, internationally acclaimed tenor who helped open the concert stage to blacks; in Boston. The son of Georgia slaves, Hayes studied singing in the U.S., but had to travel to Europe to gain recognition as a performer. After entertaining the royal family at Buckingham Palace, in 1923 Hayes returned triumphantly to America, where he sang with symphony orchestras and in recitals for more than 50 years...