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...some Republicans worried that the popularity of John Lennon could help galvanize the anti-war movement and result in a massive vote against Nixon. On February 4, 1972, Senator Strom Thurmond sent a secret memo (later brought to light via a Freedom Of Information Act request) in which he railed about Lennon and the danger he could cause the President's 1972 reelection campaign. The proposed solution? Revoke Lennon's visa. "If Lennon's visa is terminated it would be a strategy (sic) counter-measure." But, Thurmond noted, "caution must be taken with regard to the possible alienation...
That kind of question can take a career to answer, but a good place to begin is at what Ed Sanders has called "a secret location on the lower east side," that fortuitous confluence of cheap rent and raw talent that produced some of the last century's most important writers: Allen Ginsberg, Frank O'Hara, William Bourroughs, Clark Coolidge, Bernadette Mayers...
...Candles are doing really well," says Urban Outfitters store manager Johnny Stafford. And with many candles available for under $10, they come in under most Secret Santa budgets...
What's the secret of MacCready's creativity? "When it comes to my abilities," he says, "I think that there is a lot less than meets the eye." He admits he's good at "synthesizing concepts" and making connections. Perhaps his most innovative thoughts occur away from work, particularly when "getting away on vacation, where you can relax, daydream and let your mind wander." In fact, MacCready considers daydreaming his most productive activity...
...music professor and an artist, Kurzweil appeared as a teenager on the TV game show I've Got a Secret (on which comedian Henry Morgan guessed Kurzweil's "secret" device--one that could write original music based on music it had "heard"). In college Kurzweil played piano, wrote poetry and studied creative writing with Lillian Hellman...