Kesey

1 By 1966, when the counterculture he helped inspire was taking off, Kesey was on the lam in Mexico ducking two drug busts.

2 Ken Kesey writes about donating money to a man who was down on his luck during the holidays and having a surprising reunion with him a year later.

3 Kesey’s father would, I suspect, be appalled by it.

4 His motto could be Ken Kesey’s happy line: “If I’m going to skate, I’m going to race.”

5 “We Saw Scenery,” a graphic memoir of those childhood diaries, covers roughly a decade, from the days of spelling bees to the time she went to one of Ken Kesey’s acid test parties.

6 The movie is based on the novel by Oregon writer Ken Kesey.

7 Dodgson makes a sound case that Kesey’s fascination with magic and performance — and tremendous drive — are key to his later literary success and counterculture status.

8 But, she says, "the kids all seem to prefer the Ken Kesey life".

9 A couple hundred old hippies in feathers and tie-dyed T-shirts, holding copies of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” “Sometimes a Great Notion,” or Prankster marginalia, made a single-file line snaking toward Kesey.

10 At his lowest point he was offered the chance to direct One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, another anti-authoritarian parable adapted from Ken Kesey’s novel.

11 My producing partner, Saul Zaentz – the owner of Fantasy Records and a voracious reader – felt an affinity with Kesey.

12 More than 50 years after Kesey’s novel, state psychiatric hospitals of the sort he described are, like lobotomies, long gone.

13 Kesey describes her as beautiful: "Her face is smooth, calculated, and precision-made, like an expensive babydoll, skin like flesh-colored enamel, blend of white and cream and baby-blue eyes, small nose, pink little nostrils."

14 Having bought the rights to Ken Kesey’s novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest in the 1960s, he himself played the lead for its Broadway adaptation: McMurphy, the subversive wild-man imprisoned in a psychiatric hospital.

15 Indeed, for people who didn't live through that era, the biggest surprise may well be that Kesey and his "Merry Pranksters" were not longhair, bead-wearing "hippies."

16 Traveling with Ken Kesey’s Merry Pranksters, he wore a jester’s cap.

17 In 1963 he seized the chance to play the lead role in the Broadway adaptation of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” Ken Kesey’s novel about authority and individual freedom, set in a mental hospital.

18 A truly harrowing scene from Paul Newman's version of Ken Kesey's novel, in which involuntary laughter has tragic results.

19 In need of a job, Kesey reached out to my grandfather, who at the time worked as an orderly at the Veteran’s Affairs Hospital in Menlo Park.

20 Ken Kesey once described him as “a secret thing that people passed under the table.”

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