Kesey in a sentence

But as polarizing as the subject of LSD consumption can be, its impact on American creatives like Kesey and affiliates of the Grateful Dead seems to be unmistakably concrete — and many of these trailblazing trips happened right around the Stanford bubble.

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.

Jack Nicholson was on the most charismatic form of his career in this adaptation of Ken Kesey’s novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.

Murphy likes to work with the same people, and Davis' Betsy Bucket resembles Kesey's Nurse Ratched more than Paulson does.

Murphy's vision for extends beyond two seasons, giving the show plenty of time to transform Paulson into the bleak bureaucrat imagined by Kesey.

The show is intended as a redemption arc for Ratched, making her out to be a more compassionate person than she is in either Kesey’s novel or the 1975 film adaptation.

Kesey struck exactly the right chord in Sometimes A Great Notion.

For me it was heartbreaking to hear his description of the Angel's gangbang of Neal Cassady's wife at a Kesey/Prankster LSD fest in Big Sur.

According to Kesey, "Without Faye, I would have been swept overboard by notoriety and weird, dope-fueled ideas and flower-child girls with beamy eyes and bulbous breasts." citation Esquire Magazine (September 1992).

Cowley was succeeded the following quarter by the Irish short story specialist Frank O'Connor ; frequent spats between O'Connor and Kesey ultimately precipitated his departure from the class.

In addition to teaching at the University of Oregon—culminating in Caverns (1989), a collaborative novel written by Kesey and his graduate workshop students under the pseudonym of "O.

In an interview after arriving in New York, Kesey is quoted as saying, "The sense of communication in this country has damn near atrophied.

Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters also played a part in the role of "turning heads on".

Ken Kesey donated $33,395 towards the purchase of a proper bus for the school's wrestling team to replace the chicken van that fell off a cliff.

Kesey and the Pranksters appeared onstage with the band and performed a dance-trance-jam session involving several characters from The Wizard of Oz and Frankenstein.

Kesey fled to Mexico in the back of a friend's car.

Kesey loathed the fact that, unlike the book, the film was not narrated by the Chief Bromden character, and he disagreed with Jack Nicholson's being cast as Randle McMurphy (he wanted Gene Hackman ).

Kesey was a champion wrestler in both high school and college in the 174-pound weight division, and he almost qualified to be on the Olympic team until a serious shoulder injury stopped his wrestling career.

On August 14, 1997, Kesey and his Pranksters attended a Phish concert in Darien Lake, New York.

There, Kesey often spent time talking to the patients, sometimes under the influence of the hallucinogenic drugs with which he had volunteered to experiment.