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Music is a natural metaphor to Sennett, for he spent his boyhood training to be a professonal cellist. While getting his A.B. at the University of Chicago, he also was accepted as a student of conducting under Monteux. At the age of 21, as he came onstage to begin a cello recital, the nervous tension became too great. "I vomited into my cello," he recalls with a grimace. "I can laugh about it now, but at the time it was . .." Words fail...
...Scottish ballad form more than anything else. But what we play is rock and roll." Thompson, son of a Scotland Yard detective who played guitar in police bands ("He wasn't good. I'm sure he won't mind my saying that"), spent his boyhood listening to early rock coming from his sister's bedroom and from the cafe down the street. He met Linda more than a decade ago, through a mutual friend in Fairport Convention, the late Sandy Denny...
Indeed, Interior Secretary James Watt, 44, has lost none of that astringent seriousness of his Wyoming boyhood. Even more, he still seems powered by youth's missionary energy, the sense of absolute righteousness that maturity usually softens. "It is really very simple," Watt says of his really very complex duties as manager of the Government's 1.5 billion acres of land and water. "America must have abundant energy if we are to secure our freedom and liberty and create jobs." For Watt, that means a rather sudden, gear-grinding tilt toward private exploitation of Government-owned natural resources...
...surrendering 75? to enter the pestilential inferno of the New York City subway (and reading headlines wondering whether impending increases can hold the fare to $1). He can remember paying a fare of a nickel. He begrudges paying 30? for those headlines too, when the Boston Post in his boyhood cost 2?. Well, the Boston Post no longer exists; perhaps he will see the day when the New York subway no longer exists either...
...brawler in military school, thrown out of college twice for carousing, he was even dropped from his fraternity for burning down its homecoming display. His father called him heir to a family business, then made an agreement to sell it instead, days before committing suicide. Nonetheless, from boyhood Robert Edward Turner III has likened himself to heroes he studied in the classics, prominent among them Alexander the Great...