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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fade, so may Fleetwood Mac. For the most part, Tusk continues the tradition of the predictable Fleetwood Mac song--strong, throbbing percussion, acoustic guitar, and lyrics often unintelligable and always accompanied by lots of "oooh-waahs" or "sha-la-las". True, there is some experimentation with different musical styles--"That's Enough for Me" sounds like an Appalachian hoedown with its folk banjo and "Yeah, yeah, y'alls" while "Not That Funny" is somewhat new wave with its synthesizer solos--but nearly all the cuts seem forced to fit into Fleetwood Mac's formulaic style. Tusk is from the same...

Author: By Michael E. Silver, | Title: Driftwood of the '70s | 11/9/1979 | See Source »

Bergenheim said the many controversies at B.U. demonstrate the university's academic freedom. "How could those five professors make these irrational statements if what they said were true? If John Silber had the power to whip people into line, they would have been whipped out of line a long time ago," Bergenheim said

Author: By Nicholas D. Kristof, | Title: Professors Say Silber Purges B.U. | 11/9/1979 | See Source »

Isham sparkles in his role as bastard son of Richard Coeur de Lion, a true-hearted Englishman ready to defend King and country against all comers. He baits his enemies and prances and banters during his soliloquies in the first half of the play. Isham's natural improvisations establish a rapport with the audience, which surrounds the Mather House stage on three sides...

Author: By Elizabeth H. Wiltshire, | Title: A Shakespearean Soap Opera | 11/8/1979 | See Source »

...EXAMINATION of its immediate points, the larger import of Glashow's and Weinberg's work can be easily overlooked. Unified field theory was unsubstantiated as recently as the 1950's. Belief that it would ultimately be proven true was the exception: skepticism was the rule. The "glorious tapestry" that we now appreciate was periously close to never being woven. So not only was guage theory momentous, but it was propitious, for with its discovery, the pendulum of scientific opinion swung in the other direction. As Bamberg suggests, "there's now abundant optimism where once there was none...

Author: By James Aisenberg, | Title: An Invitation To Stockholm | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

When the returns from Tuesday's Boston City Council and School Committee elections are closely examined, one truth will become self-evident--the true Boston "pol" is a very rare creature. Instead, there are politicians who carry black wards, and those who win in Southie, and in Eastie and in Charlestown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Call Me O'Leary | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

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