"It was a great notion for a play," said Mike Rego of the Araca Group, which brought the musical "Urinetown" to Broadway.
Eric Goldman of IGN gave "Sometimes a Great Notion" an "incredible" rating of 9.5 out of 10.
Mr. Kesey's words came through in other ways, including a reading from "Sometimes a Great Notion" and thoughts of his in the program.
Warning: Spoilers galore if you haven't seen Sometimes A Great Notion, the first episode of the second half of Battlestar Galactica's fourth and final season.
After publishing the novels "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and "Sometimes a Great Notion," he had by 1964 wearied of writing or so fried his brain with hallucinogens that he embraced what he saw as a brand new art form: a drug-enabled psychic quest that would document itself as it was happening.
He had neither talent nor wish to be an authoritarian Speaker; he believed in letting angry people let off steam, had no great notion of the sacredness of ministers and reckoned that the kicking up of a row was not something to be got out of proportion.
"I wouldn't be surprised to see a much greater notion of conspiracy in countries like Argentina, Italy and Greece and much less in places like Sweden, Norway, Britain and Germany," said Markovits, author of the forthcoming book, "Gaming the World: How Sports are Reshaping Global Politics and Culture".
I place this here not as a recommendation to buy but as a reminder of the great Notion Ink Wars of 2011.
It would make for a great story, the notion of these prescient, unbeatable investors.
Like the Greeks and the Persians, the countries of the West and the Islamic East stare unblinking across a great divide, their notions of citizenship and political life irrevocably opposed.
