Word: caulfield
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some adolescent reason that The Catcher in the Rye's Holden Caulfield would have understood, Clint Williams ponders suicide. "Of course, if I end up in some lousy place like Hell," he reflects in his diary, "it would be a miserable mistake. The thing I am gambling on is that after death people become automatically ghosts, and possess thereby complete freedom of movement. ADVANTAGES: I could follow Berry-berry around from place to place...
...language in the book. Nor did we think it a "beautiful and moving" story. Repeating unpleasant language, which most of us have already heard somewhere, was not the point of studying this book. We read it because it is well written, and we learned a lot from discussing Holden Caulfield's problems...
...when eight angry parents shoved the book under his nose and bitterly complained that English Teacher Beatrice Levin had assigned it to their 16-year-olds at Edison High School. The parents were not taken with Novelist Salinger's 16-year-old hero, a sensitive boy named Holden Caulfield who goes underground for 48 hours in Manhattan to escape insensitive grownups. The book, said they, had "filth on nearly every page." One four-letter word in particular made it "not fit to read." Their demand: fire the teacher...
During Tom Brown's school days at Rugby a century ago, for fastidious Dink Stover going up to Yale in 1912, down to Catcher's supercilious modern hero, Hoiden Caulfield, the big deal for the well-dressed schoolboy and collegian has always been flannel. In the last decade alone, flannel for boys' and students' suits has topped all other suit fabrics in the U.S. each year without exception. But last week fabled flannel was on the way out. In 1960 worsteds will be the most popular fabric for youthful suits, followed by hopsackings, with flannel toppling...
...must belong. Probably not since the sway of the ancient theocracies has a ruling class had such influence over the child mind. A well-flogged lordling of Dr. Keate's Eton, a Dickens character sniveling in Dotheboys Hall, or even that refugee from the U.S. prep school, Holden Caulfield, would shed a tear for the winners in the Russian school system. It is a system destined to convert the countenance of a child into the Gromyko mask of panslavery...