Ken Kesey - Ken Kesey Ken Kesey (September 17, 1935 - November 10, 2001) was an American author and prolific throughout his life but he was probably best known as the author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and as a cultural icon who some consider something of a link between the "beat generation" of the 1950s and the "hippies" of the 1960s. Born in La Junta, Colorado, he spent much of his youth in the Pacific Northwest. There he married Faye Haxby, with whom he had three children, Jed, Zane and Shannon. He attended the University of Oregon, where he received a degree in speech and communication and was an Olympic-caliber wrestler. He was awarded a Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship in 1958; he moved to Palo Alto,.
Hippie - gathering attended mostly by hippies) Free love (see also: Sexual revolution) Communal living Incense Using recreational drugs (particularly marijuana, hashish, LSD, and Psilocybin). Marijuana was prized as much for its iconoclastic, illicit nature as for its psychopharmaceutical effect. Though in retrospect, people seem to recall that Hippies did not smoke cigarettes made of tobacco, and that they considered tobacco dangerous, a look through photographs made at the time shows that cigarettes were very much in evidence. Though they were a genuine counterculture movement, the Hippies were not particularly tolerant of homosexuality. The term is sometimes also associated with participation in peace movements, including peace marches such as the USA marches on Washington and civil rights marches. However, hippies were normally not antiwar protesters, since they were traditionally apolitical, preferring to drop.
Gerry (film) - had travelled far into the wilderness to attend, and soon realize that they are lost in the desert. The camera and the sound walk with them, from one absurd scene to another, as the two men stagger toward despair. After several days of wandering around mostly in silence, both protagonists collapse due to fatigue and dehydration. The weaker of the two (Affleck) proclaims that he will not go on and decides to "leave". Whereupon, Gerry (Damon) struggles on top of Gerry (Affleck), dispassionately strangling him to death. After a moment, he rises to his feet to move on. Walking only a dozen yards or so, he discovers a busy highway on the horizon. Gerry catches a ride with a family, whom he watches in awkward silence. The soundtrack is a sparse.
Grateful Dead - Lesh, and in 1967 - the band's breakthrough year - another percussionist, Mickey Hart. Playing originally as The Warlocks, and later "The Grateful Dead" (a name inspired by the Egyptian Book of the Dead), they became the de facto resident band of Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters, with the early sound heavily influenced by Kesey's LSD-soaked Trips Festivals. This early period is covered in Tom Wolfe's "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test." Their musical influences varied widely with input from the psychedelic music of the era, combined with rhythm and blues, jazz, and country. These various influences were distilled into a unique new music that was a synthesis of all American folk music forms to-date; it paid homage to previous forms, and also reflected a sense of adventure and a continuous quest for.
Furthur - 1939 International Harvester school bus purchased by author Ken Kesey in 1964. The bus was stripped down and remodeled inside and out for a psychedelic excursion across the country with Kesey and his Merry Pranksters on board. The destination sign on the bus was painted to read "Furthur", hence the name. Beat legend Neal Cassady was the driver of the famous bus on its original trip to New York for the opening of Kesey's new book, Sometimes A Great Notion. The trip was filmed by Kesey's friends and is now sold on intrepidtrips.com as "Intrepid Traveller and His Merry Pranksters Leave in Search of A Kool Place". The bus is mentioned in the Grateful Dead song "That's It for the Other One" in the verse "the bus came by and I.
Electroconvulsive therapy - by means of an EEG. Following the seizure, there is a short period of time during which electrical activity in the brain ceases and an EEG reading is flat. Opponents of the practice claim this is no different than the state of being brain dead, and that brain cell death occurs during this time. There is current research in using transcranial magnetic stimulation as an alternative to ECT. Controversy There is much debate both within the field of psychiatry and among the general public as to the utility of electroconvulsive therapy. Opponents claim that the mechanism through which electroshock creates changes in mental state is nothing more than the destruction of brain cells, and even proponents are not quite sure how it works. Many patients who have undergone ECT claim it.
Deaths in 2001 - William Kienzle, author of murder mysteries with Catholic priest detective 24 Melanie Thornton, aged 34, singer, (plane crash near Zürich) 22 Mary Kay Ash, American businesswoman, founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics. 12 Tony Miles, English chess player. 10 Ken Kesey, 66, American author, counter-cultural figure. October 2001 15 Zhang Xueliang (aged 100), Chinese warlord and military figure. Important individual in recent Chinese history 12 Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone (Quintin Hogg), aged 94 -- British lawyer and politician September 2001 22 Isaac Stern, 81, Ukrainian violinist. 13 Victor Wong, aged 74, American movie actor and artist. 11 - Barbara Kay Olson, 45, American conservative television commentator, died in terrorist attack on The Pentagon. 11 Casualties from the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack. 9 Ahmed Shah Massoud, Afghani Northern Alliance military commander..
1962 - relieved of his duties over the Spiegel affair because it is alleged that he was involved in police action against the magazine November 5 - Saudi Arabia breaks off diplomatic relations with Egypt following a period of unrest partly caused by the defection of several Saudi princes to Egypt November 6 - Apartheid: The United Nations General Assembly passes a resolution condemning South Africa's racist apartheid policies and calls for all UN member states to cease military and economic relations with the nation. November 7 - Richard M. Nixon loses the California governor's race. In his concession speech, he states that this is his "last press conference" and that "you won't have Dick Nixon to kick around any more". November 17 - In Washington, DC, US President John F. Kennedy dedicates.
1935 - miles per hour on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, becoming the first person to drive an automobile over 300 MPH. 1935 in television First TV broadcasts in Germany and England. France begins broadcasting regular transmissions from the top of the Eiffel Tower Births January 4 - Floyd Patterson, boxing champion January 7 - Valeri Kubasov, cosmonaut January 8 - Elvis Presley, American singer January 12 - Kreskin, mentalist January 16 - Udo Lattek, football coach January 16 - A.J. Foyt, automobile racer January 30 - Richard Brautigan, writer and poet February 1 - Dieter Kühn, narrator, dramatist and essayist February 5 - Sandra Paretti, author (+ 1994) February 11 - Sergio Mendes -- an alternative source gives 1941. February 11 - Gerry Goffin. February 11 - Bent Lorentzen, composer. February.
1935 in literature - in the Morning - Robert P. Tristram Coffin The Strange Death of Liberal England - George Dangerfield A Stranger Still - Anna Kavan (writing as Helen Ferguson) Studs Lonigan - A Trilogy - James T. Farrell They Shall Inherit the Earth - Morley Callaghan Treasure of the Sierra Madre - B. Traven When the Mountain Fell - Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz Winterset - Maxwell Anderson Births January 30 - Richard Brautigan, writer and poet February 5 - Sandra Paretti, author (+ 1994) March 1 - Judith Rossner, writer August 15 - Régine Deforges, writer, publisher September 17 - Ken Kesey, author October 7 - Thomas Keneally, Australian novelist Deaths April 6 - Edwin Arlington Robinson, poet August 17 - Charlotte Perkins Gilman, author August 30 - Henri Barbusse, French novelist and journalist December.
1962 in literature - Anne Morrow Lindbergh The Guns of August - Barbara Tuchman The Kindly Ones - Anthony Powell Lilies of the Field - William Barrett The Man in the High Castle - Philip K. Dick Mother Night - Kurt Vonnegut A Murder of Quality - John le Carré My Life in Court - Louis Nizer One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov The Prize - Irving Wallace A Prologue To Love - Taylor Caldwell The Reivers - William Faulkner Seven Days in May - Fletcher Knebel & Charles W. Bailey II Sex and the Single Girl - Helen Gurley Brown A Shade of Difference - Allen Drury Ship of Fools - Katherine Anne Porter Silent Spring - Rachel Carson The Spy Who Loved Me - Ian.
2001 in literature - - Herbert R. Lottman Marie Antoinette: The Journey - Antonia Fraser Nickel and Dimed - Barbara Ehrenreich A Painted House - John Grisham Rouge Brésil - Jean-Christophe Rufin Seabiscuit: An American Legend - Laura Hillenbrand Skipping Christmas - John Grisham The Stone Carvers - Jane Urquhart Thief of Time - Terry Pratchett Thinks - David Lodge The White Castle - Orhan Pamuk Births Deaths January 31 - Gordon R. Dickson, science fiction writer February 7 - Anne Morrow Lindbergh, author, aviator March 12 - Robert Ludlum, author June 1 - Hank Ketcham, 81, cartoonist, creator of Dennis the Menace July 3 - Mordecai Richler August 1 - Poul Anderson - fantasy / sci-fi author August 6 - Jorge Amado, 88, Brazilian writer August 20 - Fred Hoyle, Astronomer and science fiction.
Acid Test - area by a group of artists, misfits and musicians called the Merry Pranksters, who were "led" by author Ken Kesey. Money from Kesey's bestselling book One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was used to pay for these parties and the free LSD given out at them. The Grateful Dead, famed 60's counterculture musical group, was born at these Acid Tests. Author Tom Wolfe chronicled the adventures of Kesey and his Merry Pranksters in his seminal work of poetic, Day-Glo neojournalism, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. The Acid Test parties and Wolfe's book were catalysts for the Love Generation migration to San Francisco for the Summer of Love..
Bela Fleck & the Flecktones - released its eponymous first album. Harmonica player Howard Levy appeared on the Flecktones' first three albums. After Levy's departure, Fleck and the Wooten Brothers regrouped on the album Three Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, the title a reference to the 1975 movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest based on Ken Kesey's novel. Saxophonist Jeff Coffin joined the band beginning with the album Live Art. The band has won several Grammy awards. Each of the current members of the quartet has released at least one solo album. Discography Béla Fleck and the Flecktones (album) (1990) Grammy nomination, Instrumental Composition Flight of the Cosmic Hippo (1991) No. 1, jazz charts Grammy nomination, Instrumental Composition UFO TOFU (1992) Grammy nomination, Best Instrumental Three Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1993) Live Art (1996) Grammy.
The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test - Kool Aid Acid Test, by Tom Wolfe follows Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters as they take the bus Furthur around the country. While all of the pranksters take LSD, Wolfe stays sober and records the whole adventure. This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it..
September 17 - Borghese, later Pope Paul V 1743 - Marquis de Condorcet, mathematician, philosopher, and political scientist 1819 - Thomas Hendricks, former Vice President of the United States (†1885) 1857 - Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, rocket scientist, inventor (†1935) 1874 - Ben Turpin, actor, comedian (†1940) 1879 - Rube Foster, Negro League baseball star (some sources say 1878) (†1930) 1883 - William Carlos Williams, physician and writer (†1963) 1890 - Gabriel Heatter, journalist (†1972) 1900 - John Willard Marriott, hotelier (†1985) 1907 - Warren Burger, 15th Chief Justice of the United States (†1995) 1923 - Hank Williams, musician (†1953) 1927 - George Blanda, National Football League and American Football League star 1928 - Roddy McDowall, actor (†1998) 1929 - Sir Stirling Moss, Formula One racer.
Silent Generation - and thinkers such as John Lennon, Bob Dylan, and Allen Ginsberg who shaped the fashions of the younger boomers formed the engine behind the 1960s and 1970s. Silent celebrities include the following: 1925 William F. Buckley, Jr 1925 Gore Vidal 1926 Marilyn Monroe (died 1962) 1927 Andy Warhol (died 1987) 1928 T. Boone Pickens, Jr 1929 Martin Luther King, Jr (died 1968) 1930 Neil Armstrong 1930 James A. Baker III 1930 Sandra Day O'Connor 1930 Clint Eastwood 1931 James Dean (died 1955) 1931 James Earl Jones 1932 Andrew Young 1933 Stanley Milgram (died 1984) 1934 Carl Sagan (died 1996) 1935 Elvis Presley (died 1977) 1935 Geraldine Ferraro 1935 Woody Allen 1935 Phil Donahue 1936 Jim Henson (died 1990) 1936 Abbie Hoffman (died 1989) 1937 Jack Nicholson 1939 Marvin Gaye (died 1984).
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a novel by Ken Kesey first published in 1962. It was later made into a Milos Forman film of the same name. Randle Patrick McMurphy, a prisoner whose term is nearly over, decides to have himself declared insane so he'll be transferred to a mental institution, where he expects to spend the rest of his time in peace. Please note that the following contains spoilers McMurphy's ward in the mental institution is run by an unyielding tyrant, Nurse Ratched, who has cowed the patients--who are mostly there by choice--into dejected institutionalised submission. McMurphy becomes ensnared in a number of power-games with Nurse Ratched for the hearts and minds of the inmates. All the time, however, the question is in the mind as to just.
Neal Cassady - Dean Moriarity in Kerouac's On The Road; Ginsberg mentioned him as well, in his ground-breaking poem, Howl ("N.C., secret hero of these poems..."). In the late 1950's, Cassady settled down, married Carolyn Cassady, and went to work for the railroad. While he kept in touch with his Beat counterparts, they drifted apart philosophically. In 1964, Cassady met up with Ken Kesey and Tom Wolf, becoming part of the Merry Pranksters and serving as the crazed driver of the bus named Furthur which was immortalized in Wolf's novel, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. He later played a prominent role in the California psychedelic scene of the 1960s. After a party in Mexico in 1968 he went walking by a railroad track to reach the next town, but passed out in the cold.
November 10 - Asia. 1971 - In Cambodia, Khmer Rouge forces attack the city Phnom Penh and its airport, killing 44, wounding at least 30 and damaging nine airplanes. 1975 - The 729-foot-long freighter (then, the largest ship on the Great Lakes) SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm 17 miles from the entrance to Whitefish Bay on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on board. 1975 - United Nations Resolution 3379: With a vote of 72 to 35 (with 32 abstentions), the United Nations General Assembly approves a resolution equating Zionism with racism (the resolution was repealed in December 1991). 1989 - After 35 years of communist rule in Bulgaria, Bulgarian Communist Party leader Todor Zhivkov is replaced by hitherto Prime Minister Petre Mladenov who changes the party's name to the Bulgarian Socialist.
