Armed with the words, he approaches his top two deejays, Dr. Johnny Fever and Venus Flytrap, and points out that they shouldn't play this song anymore.Johnny and Venus warn Carlson that if they apply in to the one song, the group will be back with additional requests - and with threats. Sure enough, the same man comes back with a number of songs that are not to be played, and when Carlson stands up to him, he begins to go after the station's sponsors. Eventually, he gets the guy who runs the bait company (TigerBlog believes it was called "Red Wigglers") to bond on the station, which he apologizes for profusely as he admits he feels ashamed for doing so. In the big scene at the end, the leader of the group comes back another time, trying to get it appear like he and Mr. Carlson are really on the same side. Carlson then mentions that "other than making an old man feel like a coward," he doesn't see what the radical has actually accomplished.He then pulls out a piece of paper and manpower it to the guy, saying that Johnny had written them land and asked if they'd be acceptable. Barely audibly, the man reads the words:"Imagine there's no heaven. It's easy if you try. No hell below us. Above us only sky. Imagine all the people, living for today."He then continues to scan the lyrics, the office about there being no countries, no religion, no possessions. When he's done, he tells Carlson that clearly this would go on the prohibited list.When Carlson points out that there's not an inoffensive word in the song, he then dismisses it by saying a world without religion, without heaven and hell, without possessions is clearly Communist.Carlson, as he's around to give him out of his office, says that the source of those words never said that those things don't exist. He said to Think they don't exist.The episode, lost in a fluffy - and extremely curious and underrated - sitcom, is one of the most powerful moments in television that TB has always seen. The author, of course, was John Lennon, who was changeable and killed 30 years ago today in face of his flat at the Dakota, one bar to the westward of Central Park.There are no words that can explain strongly enough to somebody who was too new to be around back then but how big a deal Lennon and his group The Beatles were. To many who love them only from a video game or now that their songs are available on I-tunes, they make no way of knowing the affect that the 4 long-haired kids from Liverpool had on the total world.As for Lennon, he was a hero to the anti-war movement, with songs like "Imagine" and "Make Peace a Fortune" and his Christmas song: "Happy XMas - War Is Over."Lennon also had great solo songs like "Watching The Wheels" and "Instant Karma," not to refer all the legendary songs that he and Paul McCartney wrote together for The Beatles, many of which debuted on I-Tunes recently.Lennon was also apparently a pretty down-to-Earth guy, one who mixed with the mass on the streets of New York every day, who made time to sign autographs and place for pictures outside of building, who never ducked the crowd. In what became his final irony, he could have avoided Marc David Chapman easily had he allowed the car he was in to be goaded into the court at the Dakota. Instead, he got out in front, so as not to let down those who were waiting to receive him.The history of the dark of Lennon's murder and how it was first reported on "Monday Night Football" was the issue of an extremely well-done long while on ESPN the former day.TB was a big Beatles fan even before he always heard of Bruce Springsteen, and nearly all of his early record purchases were Beatles' albums. TB remembers the day Lennon was changeable and what classes were alike the following day like it was yesterday - even if it happened 30 years ago.Women's track and field coach Peter Farrell is one of three Princeton coaches who was already working here when Lennon was killed, along with men's track and field coach Fred Samara and men's swimming coach Rob Orr. TB knew Farrell, who is as complete a social commentator as he is a coach, would take something to say about Lennon, and TB was right."Lennon was The Beatles," Farrell said. "His breadth alone made them what they were. I couldn't really take McCartney or George Harrison or Ringo [Starr]. McCartney was saccharin without Lennon. I think I couldn't sit through a Paul McCartney concert. 'Silly Love Songs?' No way. When Lennon wrote a song, he had something to say."And so he added this:"Lennon was the Bruce Springsteen of Great Britain."John and Paul agreed to get every song either of them wrote for the group to be credited to Lennon and McCartney. In a standardized way, Princeton track is Farrell and Samara.Track and area is not an easy sport to coach. It goes longer than any other sport at Princeton, beginning with cross country and then including indoor and outdoor. The numbers of athletes involved in the two programs is invariably more than 100, and coaching sprinters is often different than coaching distance runners or throwers.It is physically demanding, and it takes a huge emotional toll as well, especially, TB assumes, to go from something similar the NCAA cross country championships directly to the indoor season's earliest meet.That first encounter would be this Saturday, when Jadwin Gym hosts the New Year's Invitational for both the men and women. There will be 12 college teams competing, as well as some unattached individuals. As with any track meet, it will be a well-choreographed and colorful competition, with different skills on display from issue to event. It begins at 11 and runs all day.Oh, and it's free. Imagine that.
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