Subscribe to one of our news e-mail lists . They called themselves the Merry Pranksters, a loose gathering of friends in search of good times. Kesey said he has been trying to get the film out for 30 years, with no luck. The Psychedelic '60s The University of Virginia draws on its special collections to examine this era. People come to this footage like they would come to a Dairy Queen with a spoon.
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If Shakespeare were working right now, he wouldn't be working with a quill pen. He would be working with whatever the cutting edge of theatrical drama would be. The man who wrote 'Cuckoo's Nest' Like Shakespeare, Kesey made a name for himself at an early age. He grew up in Oregon's lush Willamette Valley, went on to the University of Oregon and became a champion wrestler, even an Olympic hopeful. Then he won a Woodrow Wilson fellowship and entered the prestigious graduate writing program at Stanford University.