Word: mcmillian
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...It’s] evident to everyone that [The Beatles] entered their most fertile creative period after they began smoking grass and taking LSD,” wrote Extension School instructor John McMillian in an email; he is currently working on a book about the legendary band. “Same for Bob Dylan. And I can think of several major writers, like Edgar Allen Poe, Aldous Huxley and Jack Kerouac, whose use of narcotics, hallucinogens and stimulants apparently enhanced their work. But certainly there was a destructive side to this as well. Diminishing returns set in pretty quickly...
...arts article "High Art" took a quote about drug use in art from Extension School instructor John McMillian out of context. In addition to saying that many artistic greats used drugs during their most creative periods, McMillan said that he does not advocate drug use and that some of the artists suffered mightily from the negative side effects of drugs...
Whereas previous scholarship on the 1960s has focused on the perspective of participants in the protest movements of the decade, a new journal co-edited by Lecturer on History and Literature John C. McMillian aims to feature a diverse range of historical views and reach a broad audience. The journal, entitled “The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics, and Culture,” is set to launch in June of 2008. “This journal is meant to be written in a jargon-free, accessible way,” McMillian said. “It?...
...seems a bit arbitrary for Sports Illustrated to withhold an issue that’s part of our subscription,” said John C. McMillian, the librarian for Quincy House. Quincy, along with Adams and Lowell, is among the Houses that subscribes to Sports Illustrated but didn’t get the swimsuit issue, which hit newsstands about a month...
...someone really wants it I guess I could request it,” McMillian said...