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University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, December 11. 1974
11
Book roundup corrals several stunners
By EVIE RAPPORT
The world of books and authors seems so placid—tweedy, reserved and larceny. Yet he has stared, even electrified, the world outside the subdued dens of publishers and writers. One book is "All the President's Other Book," of course, "The Gulang Archipelago."
This book, Alexander Solzhentitsyn's impassioned indictment of Soviet prison camps and the policies that kept them overflowing with "traitors" and "spies", traces the nearly 60-year history of the Communist party's official campaigns of
terror and extermination. "Gulag Archipelago" is perhaps the major reason for Solzhenityn's exile, and the drama of a longe genius standing against the Communist bureaucracy caught the world's attention, at least for a few weeks.
OUR OWN TROUBLES at home kept us more continually occupied, however, and the publication of "All the President's Men," by Pultzer Prize-winning reporters Carl Bergstein and Bob Woodward, provided the first inside information about a story that will be analyzed and discussed for decades. It reads like a detective thriller—
leads, hints, clues, layers of foggy evasion lifting to reveal the extent of administration duplicity and complicity. Now if we just knew who "Deep Throat" was.
Rock and glitter mark music trends for '74
By JAIN PENNER
Reporter
A few years ago, the Kinks put out a song called "Lola," in which they said "Girls will be boys and boys will be girls." Little did they know then how apt that answer would describe a new trend in rock that has recently come of age.
It was a good year for Dixieland bands, with southwestern like Elvin Bishop, Lynndy Skynnyd (pronounced Len-erd Skin-erd), the Marshall Tucker Band and Hydra, to the well known Alman Brothers, all producing albums and going on tour.
Transvestite, glam, glitter, or gay rock whatever you choose to call it -it boils down to the same thing. The stage was set by Lou Reed's album "Transformer."
While the New York Dolls danced around imitating women, Suzi Suitura, clad in a black leather jumpsuit, played her hard, her gritty and relentless, breaking away from the female vocalist, acoustic guitar-strumming role women in the music industry have been forced into.
Another catalyst was added when Alice Cooper turned rock concerts into theatrical productions. The glitter rock trend grew from the early '80s to the present, satin, false eyes, lipstick and rings.
SLITHERING ON STAGE in their silver jumpsuits and six-inch platform heels, the New York Dolls, the Sweet, Kiss, David Bowie, Lon Reed and others created a style well-established stars such as Edgar Winter and Mick Jagger were quick to adopt.
STUDS TERKEL reapplied the interview technique that had served so successfully in "Hard Times" to produce "Working," a dishearing mass of evidence that most Americans don't like what they do to earn a living.
The Watergate burglarers weren't experts, although CIA dropouts led the group. "The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence," by Victor Marchetti and John D. Marks, discusses in authoritative depth what concentrated effort by trained professional can achieve. The extent of that agency's involvement in Watergate is never known, but thanks to this book and to the planned Congressional investigation we may begin to find out.
THE OTHER, the Ozark Music Festival in Sedalia, Mo., July 19-21, was termed a disaster by many and resulted in one death and several lawsuits.
Two major rock concerts took place in 1974. One, the 12-hour California Jam presented at the Ontario Motor Speedway and the other, an artistocrat of rock concerts" by reviewers.
needless deaths in an attempt to take a German bridge.
Although 1974 was not a year of "bests," they were some important albums (price projections).
BAD CO.—BAD COMPANY—A new group, composed of ex-members of Free, Mott the Hople and King Crimson produced their first album, and some reviewers thought it was the best of the year.
461 OCEAN BLUE — Eric Clapton—one of rock music's immortal gists came out with a new album this year, ending a long period of stagnation. The song *Clapton* and is far mellower than the heavy
metal rock of his days with Cream.
APOSTROPHIE-Frank Zappa-In 1972, Zappa abandoned his "toilet" rock for the band's first solo album on popularity and musicians such as Herbie Hancock are receiving attention, Zappa has returned to his "yellow snow" days, fashioned with professionalism shine through the spirit.
MOUNTAN-Golden Earring-This group already has been chosen as the best new group of 1974 and the cut "Radar Love" as the best single of 1974 in the New Music Express poll. This is a mistake, though-Golden Earring and "Moonan" have been dropped, but in 1974 they have skyrocketed from obscurity to popularity in a very short time.
SELLING ENGLAND BY THE POUND—Genesis. This rapidly rising British group produced an album this year that rivals those of Jethro Tull for wordiness and contains fresh, innovative music unrivaled for artistry.
QUEEN II -Queen-A highly versatile group, Queen produced their second album this year and won not only acclaim from reviewers and awards for production, but acclaim from other musicians, including Todd Rundgren and Rick Sortingfield.
The distingished fiction event of the year was the publication of Joseph Heller's "Something Happened." It took him 12 years to get it published, "Catch-22" isn't fancy. Or only funny in a self-splitting way. As "Catch-22," he retells a number of episodes again and again, each time revealing a bit more of the story, but his character is Vosarian's redeeming zanimity. Sieum, a circumstances, but they're ones of his own making, not forced on him by outside events. Sieum is the stereotypical "I can't come with - this I didn't - take-to-be - born"
OTHER NOTABLES of 1974:
Most promising performer: Shuggie Ogle, who played on an Al Kooper "Super Session" album and earned the 18 man of the band at age 20, arranged, produced and written his first solo album, "Inspiration Information," which he plays guitar, bass,
Reunion of the year: Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young.
Best live performers of the year: Pink Floyd, Genesis and Mott the Hoople.
Likely to appear in 1974 rock music polls for the company, Mott the Hoople, Golden Eagle Entertainment.
MUSIC FIGURES who died this year
were: .
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington, the
father of Tina Louise's scores, of
awards and honors, died July 31.
Cass Elliot, big mama of the Mamas and Papas, died July 29 at age 32. The cause of death was a heart attack, not choking on a ham sandwich, as some people claimed.
Harry Parchy, the avant-garde composer who designed his own musical scales, died Saturday.
Robbie McIntosh, drummer for the 24th Manitoba Band, was an overage of herium. McIntosh was 24 years old when he met Robbie
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ANOTHER FINE fiction book this year is Alison Larie's "The War Between the Tates," an acerbic satire about college life and their wives trying so hard to learn to swing.
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FICTIONAL SPY stories maintained their popularity, even though proof that "truth is stranger than fiction" abounded. John Le Carre's "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy." a tightly-woven story of a former leading spy called from retirement to search for a Soviet double agent, led the best-seller list for several months. The book features a plotting and intrigue, published "The Dogs of War," about an African cop, and Helen Machines, also expert in the spy-story genre, wrote "The Snare of the Hunter."
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James Michener, America's most able compiler of encyclopedic detail, wrote in the town's significance to history. Cornelius Ryan, who died in November, examined another World War II battle in "A Bridge Too Far," the sorry succession mission from Washington, plowed thousands.
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For suspense fans, "Jaws," by Peter Benchely, tells the grizzly tale of a seascape costumed diver crushing the waters off the beach. And in the straight detective story, Sherlock Holmes meets Sigmund Freud and is cured of an addiction in the Seven-Pert-Cent Solution. Compiled by Danielle Ramsay.
Biography, always a source of pleasure, had a number of fine representations this year, the most outstanding of which was *The Wizard of Oz* by UCLA professor Fawn Brodie. In a brilliant blending of scholarly research and psychological interpretation, Brodie shows us the man behind the myth, whose personal life is as complex as his intellect was towering.
Two memory books were popular this year. Rose Kennedy's "Times to Remember" presents the intimate, maternal memories of her extraordinary family. "Khushish Remembers: A Last Testament," translated by Strobe Tubehart, includes transcriptions of tapes made by the Russian leader during the last year of his life.
WALLACE STEGER studied the aggressive and able Bernard DVeito in "The Uneasy Chair," a judicious, even-handed study of that historian, critic and columnist. Justin Kaplan, who wrote so perceptive as about Mark Twinn, repeated the author's discussion in Steffens, A Biography, a fine discussion of that preeminent muckraker.
**HOW TO BOOKS were as popular as ever.**
"The Memory Book," by Harry Lorayne and Jerry Lucas, describes an association between the book's guarantee of work.
"You Can Profit from this book," by Harry Browne, and "The Wall Street Gang," by Richard Ney, tell you how to beat financiers and stockbrokers at their own games. "More Joy," by Alex Comfort, is an adaptation of the book that covers the illustrated version is $4.50 more than unillustrated, if you're interested.
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