Word: groupness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Eagles, one of America's top-selling acts (their last album, 1976's Hotel California, sold 12 million copies worldwide), have been popular favorites even as they have endured some tough drubbing from the critics. The group, particularly Co-Writers Don Henley and Glenn Frey, have been taking it on the chin for such presumed transgressions as coldness, stylistic calculation and lyrical arrogance. Some of this criticism is justified. The Eagles are a motivating commercial force in rock more than a creative one. The Sad Cafe tries to shape a coda for the '60s by shoring...
...music business dropped off earlier this year and economic panic spread, investments of both high hopes and hard cash were being made in Tusk. Like the Eagles, Fleetwood Mac was the kind of "monster" group that was expected to pull the business out of the doldrums. Both records, indeed, seem well up to such heavy hauling, especially since the runaway success of In Through the Out Door, Led Zeppelin's album of surprisingly graceful power, has cleared the road and got rock fans to reach for their wallets again...
...group action, organized by Redbook's male editor in chief Sey Chassler, is aimed at nudging some states closer to ratification-three more are required...
...liberal; it is the radicals, he insists, who became illiberal. Such quib bling may be of greater interest to the author than to his readers. But if his book is often tedious in detail, it has a sweeping theme. At a time of testing, the Commentary group upheld standards of civilized discourse and thereby earned an honorable place in the history of American letters. They behaved as intellectuals are supposed...
...group, named the Committee To Save B.U., is gathering petitition signatures for a special meeting of the faculty. Frances Fox Piven, B.U. professor of political science and an organizer of the committee, said yesterday. A resolution calling for Silber's resignation will be presented at the faculty meeting, Piven said...