Sometimes I wonder about all this business of keeping the Ken Kesey kettle cooking; if it hasn’t gone a bit too far? I mean I liked the guy and respected the fact that the Oregon author wrote two fine books about his home state-- “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” and probably his masterpiece, “Sometimes a Great Notion”--as well as a number of other, less-successful works. And that he liked little kids, was a good father and farmer, an inspiring teacher. But the sixties bit, the ongoing “Merry Pranksters” hullaboo, gets a bit tiresome. Once, at a book convention in...