Word: prankster
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...revelers ripped a peace sticker from my bumper and pasted it across my front windshield. A take-off on the jingoism of "love it or leave it," the sticker read "America-save it or screw it." I got out of my car to talk with the prankster and a crowd formed. One over-thirtyish girl said, "Look at his granny glasses" and her companion said, "I'd like to pull every hair on your chin...
Ethel is no longer the prankster she was in days past, when she would string up a dummy parachutist in a tree by way of greeting General Maxwell Taylor, who parachuted into Normandy on Dday. But evenings at Hickory Hill are hardly occasions for quiet conversation. "After dinner, you never just sit around and talk, because she's not comfortable in that type of situation," says a friend. There is always an activity of some sort?charades, games of "who said that?" based on the day's news?or a movie in the playroom by the pool. A recent guest...
...work in creatively any more. People in the networks are afraid of original ideas." He does not disdain TV, however, to plug his book and a new record album in countless guest spots. Some of his merchandising and stunts are done largely for fun. He was the prankster who masterminded the parody presidential campaign of his Smothers show colleague, Pat Paulsen. He is now redecorating the guest quarters of his Los Angeles home (he is divorced) into a stereotypical motel room-"just so people will feel at home." He has already laid in a selection of travel folders, a Gideon...
...contrast, Jones, a Negro steelworker's son from Pittsburg, Texas, is a happy-go-lucky prankster whose speed (9.3 sec. for the 100-yd. dash), disconcerting agility and uncanny ability to catch a football are matched only by his disdain for discipline. He has been known to run one play while all the rest of the Giants were running another. And he loves to tell the story of the time he was a track star at Texas Southern University, running the anchor leg in a one-mile relay-and crossed the finish line carrying two batons...
These political, ethical consequences are implicit in the Prankster way of life, in the experience of acid itself. And perhaps if Kesey hadn't been busted (he eventually served a year's sentence), he could have invented the kinds of pranks that would help people to be less scared of the world and of themselves...