Duke U boycott and "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest": love it or hate it?

[PufPuf23]

6. I like this post.

Race and gender relations are far from perfect.

Some of us are exploiters of status quo inequality and some are not and even the best of heart operate in a gray area that humbles in hindsight.

At best art can be a safe zone to examine culture and mores.

I too love One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest (and will put it on my queue to re-read).

In 1970 I was at a boarding school in the San Francisco area and we had recently gone on a high school field trip to see OFOTCN as a play after reading the novel in our English class.

The first theatrical showing of OFOTCN was at a small theatre in San Francisco -- The Little Fox -- and five years before the movie.

http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/One-Flew-Back-And-Forth-Over-Cuckoo-s-Nest-3024297.php

"Sankowich, 53, has had that feeling since the beginning of rehearsals for "Cuckoo," which opens September 27. And for good reason: He has directed 8 1/2 productions of the play before this time. (The half was in Baltimore when he was called in to rescue a troubled production.) The first time Sankowich did "Cuckoo" was in 1970 in San Francisco. It ran for five years at the now-defunct Little Fox Theatre."

My parents came for a weekend visit and I purchased tickets. My parents were rural and old fashioned and had lived all their lives in the most rural part of Humboldt county. We had never attended a play or music or art exhibit or the like as a family; the most cultural family event was a movie and that was rare. Telephone service was first available to our home in 1970 and there still is not cell service. My Dad was an 8th grade graduate and political conservative so this was an edgy event for us and a coming out of sorts for me with my parents.

Kesey was a product of his time and place and did he ever expand horizons. Kesey's other early novel Sometimes a Great Notion was made into the best movie about logging ever made (and is also a good novel). The art is also not that politically correct but a product (and now remembrance) of the time and place.

Thank you Syzygy321.