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Colonies of rock musicians were forming in the Los Angeles subdivisions of Laurel Canyon, Echo Park and Venice. Glenn Frey drifted in from Royal Oak, Mich. Don Henley was a North Texas State English major before he decided to move west. They eventually formed the supergroup the Eagles...
...collection, as it were, is a group of scrolls and albums by Tao'chi, a monastic scholar and painter who eventually renounced Buddhism and became a professional painter in the metropolis of Yang-chou. His "Echo" is a definitive understatement: on the left, a mountain made of brushstrokes swirls up out through clouds (also defined by the texture of the stroke). A tremulous, finely-drawn bridge spans the silent gap between this huge statement and a smaller hill that echoes it. The echo is seen, heard and felt...
...childhood incidents: the secret games she played with her imaginary personal god (her first fictional creation), a male who was dressed as a female for special rites; her mourning grandmother calling her "my son" in the days following Sand's father's sudden death; the time she heard an echo and thought she had two selves. Luckily, Barry quickly abandons these naive explanations, admitting they are not the sole key to Sand's life, becoming more sympathetic to the plight facing a woman writer attempting to break out of traditional roles...
...voices of Howard Cosell, Alex Karras, and Keith Jackson seem to echo about the room; my mouth waters as I rush for the T.V. in hopes of catching the last ten minutes of Candlepins for Cash...
Whichever scenario is correct, says Astrophysicist Greenstein, "I find a certain pleasure and honor in belonging to the universe of stars, of these events that have created the materials of which the earth and I are made." It is a sentiment many can echo. The final consolation has always been, as humanity looking upward measured its own finiteness against the infinity of the stars, that it is better to have been for a season, even a moment, than not to have been at all. The stars thus are no less symbols in their newly understood mortality than they were, seemingly...