Word: nest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey. Set inside a mental hospital, this brilliant first novel is a roaring protest against middlebrow society's rules...
...listen,' I said in an urgent undertone, trying not to alarm the rest of the group. 'What prevents them from, say, setting fire to this tree and smoking us out like a nest of bees...
...Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey. Set inside a mental hospital, this brilliant first novel is a roaring protest against middlebrow society's rules...
...FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST (311 pp.)-Ken Kesey-Viking...
These people were birders-a flinty-eyed, cold-tailed breed whose normal habitat covers just about every square mile of land in the U.S. They nest and feed very much as humans do, but at around the turn of the calendar every winter, they roost in icy swamps, deep forests, river and creek shores, arriving there usually in predawn darkness, armed with cameras, binoculars, telescopes, field guides and silence. They are a kind of rara avis whose purpose it is to count birds and species of birds, with the emphasis, of course, on the rara avis...