Word: caulfield
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...awful to contemplate what would have happened if Salinger's Hoiden Caulfield had, by some mischance, got into Cozzens' Durham School...
...this room! I'm sick of the sight of you! Report yourself on detention for a month. If you're absent from chapel, the prefects will take care of it. Get out of my sight!" A dozen of the best would be the lot of Hoiden Caulfield, just for not believing a lot of crummy stuff about...
Take some Holden Caulfield crap about adolescents trying to find themselves, and a rebellion from the strictures of upper-class society, and you've got the makings of a monumental literary stereotype...
These are the ingredients of Short Pleasures, a first novel by Cambridge resident Ann Bernays. Miss Bernays no doubt intended her heroine Nicky Hapgod to emerge as a character comparable to Holden Caulfield. (In fact, the cover of the book shouts, "Shades of Salinger!") Holden, however, was neurotic enough to be a completely original creation. Nicky attends a boarding school where her roommate is a lesbian, desires to find true love, sleeps around, gets pawed by her college president, wants to be an actress although her conformist parents disaprove, jilts her socially-respectable fiance, runs away from home to find...
...Didn't Say Yes, a Greenwich Village triangle, with Joan Hackett, Joan Caulfield, William Redfield and Peggy Cass, was praised by Boston Critic Elliot Norton as "the most promising new play on the summer theater circuit . . . idiotically funny." Top laurels went to Actress Joan Hackett, who, according to Norton, "takes the play away from most of the others most of the time and puts it in her pocket." Its present schedule calls for one-week stands at Ogunquit, Me.; Skowhegan, Me.; Philadelphia, and Latham...