Word: henley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trio of sophomores have risen from last year's Henley Regatta champion freshman boat to fill in the remaining three seats on the first boat. Gordy Gardiner takes over the stroking chores from Ollie Scholle, Warren Perkins (the four-man) joins Aitken and Brock in a powerful middle section, and Paul Templeton will row in the starboard three position...
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...
Before long, everyone knew Jackson Browne and Bonnie Raitt, who had grown up around L.A. Neil Young, Joni Mitchell and Stephen Stills lived near the top of Laurel Canyon, Frank Zappa in an old Tom Mix house a short walk away. Browne and Frey and Henley had Echo Park apartments. Linda was in Ocean Park. Jim Morrison of the Doors was the most successful musician of the crew, and the hardest to locate, since he often slept on the beach near Venice...
Edward Milton Henley, born 1883, is a cynically amusing and immensely rich businessman. He is guiltlessly dedicated to his pleasures, which include ex otic women and an occasional boy. He has had four wives but contracted with a bright, healthy Irish immigrant girl to bear his child. The result is Stephen Henley, raised in an expensive, loveless manner. Instead of following Edward's sybaritic path, Stephen becomes a Unitarian minister and a classics scholar. He marries Lucy Roundtree Evans, a widow who has spent her sexual pas sion on her first husband...
...monologues allow a cross-indexing of various aspects of love: lust, friend ship, disinterested affection, good will and gratitude. Edward Henley's antiseptic Don Juanism is a calculated mockery of the mythical passions of a faithful Tristan. Stephen Henley, too, has anesthetized his emotions, by marrying a companion and choosing a church that prizes rationality more than faith...