Word: ken
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...Ken Kesey...
Before he became a character in American literature, Ken Kesey was a novelist. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) and Sometimes a Great Notion (1964) put him in the company of the young and the promising. He was a big man (a former wrestling champ at the University of Oregon) with a big talent. His family roots were in farming and logging; the rest is classic American tumbleweed. From Wallace Stegner's writing classes at Stanford, Kesey drifted to the San Francisco Bay Area, the playpen of countercultures. A bit young to be a founding beatnik...
...Revolution is always popular, in part because the British uniforms were dazzling. These were not just the well-known red coats, but kilts for Scottish outfits and suits of splendid foppishness for officers. Lord Cornwallis is not required to surrender every weekend, but when he is played by Ken Siegel, he does so in the highest style. Siegel, 42, a management consultant from Needham, Mass., wears high silk stockings, brown-top riding boots, leather-lined, white wool breeches closed with gold buttons, a white waistcoat with a gold pocket watch, a crimson sash, a general's coat in scarlet wool...
...work to yet another needy group: agents. "Everyone is making a concerted effort to secure audio rights because they can earn considerable income," reports Albert Zuckerman, president of Writers House, Inc. "We just got a $10,000 royalty check for the audio sales of On Wings of Eagles by Ken Follett, and a $35,000 advance for Buck Rodgers' The IBM Way." Producer Linda Morgenstern of Caedmon notes "the scuffle" between agent and publisher for audio rights: "There was such a slim market before, but now everyone recognizes that there is a lot of money to be made...
...Ken Owen, editor of the financial newspaper Business Day, believes that white liberals are becoming more aware of the anger and frustration in black townships, but adds that the liberals have always been relatively well informed and now "are responding by emigrating in large numbers." Overall, he is pessimistic, saying "Ordinary whites think the maintenance of law-and- order justifies the emergency regulations. The country is moving to the right very, very fast, and not just the Afrikaners but the English-speaking population as well. They will fight tooth and claw to avoid their fate...