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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...testified that John Caulfield, a White House aide who later moved to the Department of Transportation, applied "political pressure" to him during the Watergate trial to convince him to remain silent. He said that the pressure included warnings that the fate of the Presidency might hinge on his decision...

Author: By Steven Reed, | Title: McCord Testifies Before Senate Panel | 5/18/1973 | See Source »

...into a roller risk--her boyfriend Dick assures her that "All Broadway is at your feet" where, as Groucho Marz once remarked, there's always plenty of room. There has to be, because the whole cast spends most of its time tapdancing over the whole goddamned stage, as Holden Caulfield or somebody eloquently...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: Dames At Sea | 12/2/1972 | See Source »

...really want to hear about it, I respectfully submit that Holden Caulfield is not "pushing 40" for the same reason that Hamlet is not pushing 400. Both of these "mixed-up kids" have something to say to all ages, as evidenced by their up." faithful following; they will never "grow EDWARD MC INTYRE De Kalb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 28, 1972 | 2/28/1972 | See Source »

...What you've done, buddy, you've given your readers a glorious vision of a superannuated Holden Caulfield shoving Maalox into his mouth and peering nearsightedly into the medicine-cabinet mirror in an attempt to meditate his hairline out of receding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 28, 1972 | 2/28/1972 | See Source »

Make him into a monk if you have to, but don't turn him into a hack with no vision. If Holden Caulfield did turn out to be a schoolteacher, he would take infinite delight in the shine on the braces of the boy sitting in the third row, or something. He would know that was why he was pushing the rock all over the place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 28, 1972 | 2/28/1972 | See Source »

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