Word: kesey
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...Haight-Ashbury hippie, is made tedious by its subject's now fairly conventional opinions-but when the reporting breaks forth it does so with an energy that approximates the frenzy of good, crazy fiction. "Groovy" Hutchinson, the drifter who was murdered alongside Linda Fitzptarick, comes on like a Ken Kesey hero, a con artist who ultimately can't scramble back into the society that has maimed him. Jerry Rubin appears in a whole series of guises-from young Jimmy Olsen-type reporter to revolutionary vaudevillian. And, in what is possibly the best piece of the lot, Lukas follows young Watts...
...either on the bus or off the bus," Ken Kesey told his band of merry pranksters during their 1964 bus "trip" across the United States...
...differences between yesterday's bus excursion and that of Kesey probably outweigh the similarities, but the essential status dichotomy was preserved. A secretary to Sargent Kennedy, Secretary to the Overseers, told a CRIMSON photographer attempting to follow the adventurers' trail, "Anyone who knows where the bus is going...
...which Kerouac coined the title), had moved abroad. Neal Cassady, an incidental Beat writer better known as Dean Moriarty (the hero-madman in Kerouac's On the Road ), and the subject of a 600-page character study by Kerouac, Visions of Cody, had gone off to join Ken Kesey (whom Kerouac disliked), and then had beat Kerouac to the grave. Jack spent his last eight years in St. Petersburg, Florida, living what he called "a kind of monastic life that has enabled me to write as much as I did." Shortly before his death he told a friend, "The Communists...
...Puerto Rican delinquents, burst trash bags and rusty fire escapes. All these things, lit by the glare of burning cars and the flash of pot or amphetamine, are the backdrop to one of the best fictional studies of madness, descent and purification that any American has written since Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Donald Newlove clearly set out to write a first novel about demoniac society. He has produced a combined morality play and grimoire, or devil's hornbook, in which every creature is experienced with hilarious or dreadful concreteness...