Neal Cassady - Neal Cassady Neal Cassady (February 8, 1926 - February 4, 1968) was closely associated with the Beat Generation although he never published a book. Born in Salt Lake City and raised by an alcoholic father in Denver, Cassady spent much of his youth bouncing between skid-row hotels with his father and in reform schools for car theft. In 1946 Cassady met Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg at Columbia University in New York and quickly became friends with them and the circle of artists and writers there. He took Ginsberg as a lover for a short time and traveled cross-country with Kerouac later. Cassady proved to be the catalyst for the Beat Movement, appearing as the hero Dean Moriarity in Kerouac's On The Road; Ginsberg mentioned him.
Ken Kesey - At Stanford in 1959, he volunteered to take part in a study at the Menlo Park Veterans Hospital on the effects of psychoactive drugs such as LSD, psilocybin, mescaline, and amphetamine IT-290. He wrote many detailed descriptions of his experience with these drugs, both during the study and in his own experimentation. It was at this time he wrote One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, which caught the attention of many, including "beat" poet Neal Cassady, who had accompanied Jack Kerouac on the trip described in Kerouac's On the Road. With the commercial success of his first novel in 1962, Kesey moved to La Honda, in the mountains outside of San Francisco. He frequently entertained friends with parties he called "Acid Tests" involving music (such as Kesey's favorite band, The Warlocks,.
Jack Kerouac - him a scholarship to Columbia University in New York. It was in New York that Kerouac met the people whom he was to journey around the world with, and return to write about: the so-called Beat Generation, which included people like Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady and William S. Burroughs. After breaking his leg and arguing with his coach, the football scholarship did not pan out, so Kerouac left to join the Merchant Marine. In between his sea voyages, Kerouac stayed in New York with his friends from Columbia. He started writing his first novel, called The Town and the City, which was published in 1950 and earned him some respect as a writer. Kerouac wrote constantly, despite not publishing another novel until 1957 when On the Road, published by Viking Press,.
February 4 - (+ 1955) 1897 - Ludwig Erhard, German Bundeskanzler (Federal Chancellor) (+ 1977) 1900 - Jacques Prevert, lyricist and author (+ 1977) 1902 - Charles Lindbergh, aviator (+ 1974) 1904 - MacKinlay Kantor, historian (+ 1977) 1906 - Dietrich Bonhoeffer, theologian (+ 1945) 1906 - Clyde Tombaugh, astronomer (+ 1997) 1913 - Rosa Parks, civil rights activist 1914 - Alfred Andersch, narrator and author of radio drama (+ 1980) 1914 - Ida Lupino, actress, director, writer (+ 1995) 1921 - Betty Friedan, feminist 1925 - Russell Hoban, writer 1940 - George Romero, horror movie writer, producer, director 1947 - Dan Quayle, Vice President of the United States 1948 - Alice Cooper, musician 1959 - Lawrence Taylor, American football star 1962 - Clint Black, country musician 1964 - Noodles, guitarist of The Offspring.
Furthur - 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 got on, that's when it all began...yeah Cowboy Neal at the wheel a bus to never never land". More can be read of Furthur's adventures in Tom Wolfe's.
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Allen Ginsberg - his Buddhist faith. In addition, he formed a bridge between the Beats of the 1950s and the hippies of the 1960s befriending, amongst others, Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady and Bob Dylan. Ginsberg was also a member of NAMBLA. His principal work, "Howl" (ISBN 0872860175), was considered scandalous at the time of publication, due to the rawness of the language, which was frequently explicit. Shortly after its 1956 publication by San Francisco's City Lights Bookstore, it was banned for obscenity. The ban became a cause célèbre among defenders of the First Amendment, and was later lifted after a judge declared the poem to possess redeeming social importance. Ginsberg's liberal and generally anti-establishment politics attracted the attentions of the FBI and he was regarded by them as a major security threat. Ginsberg's other.
Beat generation - New York: Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, (in the 1940s) and later (in 1950) Gregory Corso. In the mid-50s this group expanded to include San Francisco area figures such as Kenneth Rexroth, Gary Snyder, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Michael McClure, Philip Whalen and Lew Welch. Some major works from these writers are Kerouac's On the Road, Ginsberg's Howl, and Burroughs' Naked Lunch. Perhaps equally important were the less obviously creative members of the scene: Lucien Carr (who introduced Kerouac, Ginsberg and Burroughs); Herbert Huncke a drug addict and petty thief met by Burroughs in 1946; Hal Chase, an anthropologist from Denver who in 1947 introduced into the group Neal Cassady. Cassady was immortalized by Kerouac in the novel On the Road (under the name "Dean Moriarty") as a hyper wildman, frequently broke,.
The Epic Jack Kerouac - Epic Jack Kerouac: On the Road as an American Epic Letter from Neal Cassady to Jack Kerouac September 10, 1950 (excerpt) "Left M(exico) City, 'tightening my belt' for long drive ahead. Became more engrossed in landscape & noting people as I drove. Being alone, I was not called upon to make summaries to any other mind & since I was not responding to other voices calling my attention to other views of countryside or otherwise, did not notice what I may have missed seeing as I drove, because there was no one to call my attention to it and thus having only my own mad thoughts to contend with, I responded to each emotion perfectly as it came." Jack Kerouac spent his life engrossed in landscape, and the people that fill.
Pull My Daisy - Larry Rivers, Peter Orlovsky, David Amram, Richard Bellamy, Alice Neel, Sally Gross and Pablo Frank. Based on an incident in the life of Neal Cassady and his wife Carolyn, Daisy tells the story of a railway brakeman whose painter wife invites a respectable bishop over for dinner. However, the brakeman's bohemian friends crash the party, with comic results. Pull My Daisy has been deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry..
On The Road - consciousness work describes a number of road trips through America by its main protagonist, Sal Paradise. The Epic Jack Kerouac: On the Road as an American Epic Letter from Neal Cassady to Jack Kerouac September 10, 1950 (excerpt) "Left M(exico) City, 'tightening my belt' for long drive ahead. Became more engrossed in landscape & noting people as I drove. Being alone, I was not called upon to make summaries to any other mind & since I was not responding to other voices calling my attention to other views of countryside or otherwise, did not notice what I may have missed seeing as I drove, because there was no one to call my attention to it and thus having only my own mad thoughts to contend with, I responded to each emotion.
Merry Pranksters - people who collected around American novelist Ken Kesey and writer Neal Cassady. They are remembered chiefly for travelling across the United States in a psychedelic painted school bus enigmatically labelled "Furthur." The original purpose of the bus trip was to visit the World's Fair in New York City which took place in 1964. The Pranksters were heavy users of marijuana and LSD, and in the process of their journey they are said to have "turned on" many people whom they encountered to these drugs. These festivals were called "Acid Tests", with the catchword "Can you pass the acid test?" As such the Merry Pranksters were evangelists of a sort for the drug-related psychedelic and hippie counterculture of the 1960s. It was at one of these Acid Tests that the psychedelic music.
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Shaquille O'Neal - Shaquille O'Neal Shaquille Rashaun O'Neal (born March 6, 1972) in Newark, New Jersey is the one of the most dominant basketball players today. He led the Los Angeles Lakers to three NBA Finals victories in a row (2000, 2001, 2002). He was selected as the Finals MVP for each of his victories. Among other centers in NBA history, he has the best scoring average in the Finals. Finals are the most important games of any kind, so a player who is able to score many points in important games like the Finals could help his team to victory. He was also voted as the 1999-2000 Most Valuable Player for the regular season by the media. He was also voted four times for the All-NBA First Team selection(1997-98,.
Rose O'Neal Greenhow - Rose O'Neal Greenhow Rose O'Neal Greenhow (1817 - 1864) was a reknowned Confederate spy. A leader in Washington society during the period prior to the Civil War, she traveled in important political circles and cultivated friendships with presidents, generals, senators, and high-ranking military officers, using her connections to pass along key military information to the South at the start of the war. Born in Port Tobacco, Maryland, Greenhow was orphaned as a child. When she was a teenager, Greenhow was invited to live with her aunt in Washington, DC. Her aunt ran a stylish boarding house, and Greenhow was introduced to important figures in the Washington area. As a young woman, Greenhow was considered beautiful, educated, loyal, compassionate, and refined. Many were surprised when she accepted the.
Ryan O'Neal - Ryan O'Neal Patrick Ryan O'Neal (born April 20, 1941) is an American actor. Born in Los Angeles, California, O'Neal became a star on the soap opera Peyton Place. His role in Love Story gained him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. Further starring roles have been in Paper Moon (co-starring his daughter Tatum O'Neal), Barry Lyndon, and the Love Story sequel, Oliver's Story. He has also appeared in several television performances..
Patricia Neal - Patricia Neal Patricia Neal (born January 20, 1926) is an American actress. Born Patsy Louise Neal in Packard, Kentucky, she grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee. She studied drama at Northwestern University, then appeared on Broadway, winning a Tony Award for Voice of the Turtle. In 1949, she debuted in film opposite Ronald Reagan in John Loves Mary. Her appearance that same year in The Fountainhead led to a long romantic affair with her co-star, Gary Cooper. Neal starred in The Breaking Point, The Day the Earth Stood Still and Operation Pacific before 1952. She suffered a nervous breakdown in that year when her affair with Cooper came to an end, but she recovered, and returned in 1957 to star in A Face in the Crowd. In 1963,.
Patrice O'Neal - Patrice O'Neal A black comedian and one of the stars of Contest Searchlight along with Denis Leary and Lenny Clarke..
Neal Stephenson - Neal Stephenson Neal Stephenson (b. October 31, 1959 in Fort Meade, Maryland) is primarily a science fiction writer in the postcyberpunk genre. He also writes nonfiction articles about technology in publications such as Wired Magazine. Although he wrote earlier novels such as the eco-thriller Zodiac, he came to fame in the early 1990s with the novel Snow Crash (1992) which fuses memetics, computer viruses, and other high-tech themes with Sumerian mythology. Averaging one novel every four years, he has written these subsequent novels: The Diamond Age: or A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (1995) which deals with a future with extensive nanotechnology; Cryptonomicon (1999), a novel concerned with computing and codebreaking from the Second World War codebreakers to a modern attempt to set up a data haven;.
Neal Adams - Neal Adams Neal Adams is a comic book artist best known for his superhero stories which have a very naturalistic style of illustration. His period of greatest fame and influence in the medium was in the late 1960s and 1970s with the characters Deadman, Green Arrow, Green Lantern and Batman. His best known collaborator is writer Dennis O'Neil who created noteworthy stories that restablished Batman's dark brooding nature and experimented with social commentary in the Green Lantern title. Adams later started his own company, Continuity Press, which featured artwork by various artists who predominately imitated their boss's illustration style..
