Word: caulfield
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stop them. Next time she catches them, she swears, "I'll lock them in every afternoon"--but she looks doubtful even as she says it. Ultimately, she hopes, the striving for success they've grown up with will check the urge to rebel. "I want to be like Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye and stop these kids from going off the cliff," she says. "But then I look at the breadth of the problem and think...
...President's re-election strategy becomes clear, we are finally realizing just which adolescent Bill Clinton really wants to be: it turns out he is Holden Caulfield. Near the end of J.D. Salinger's classic novel of teenage angst, which Hillary Clinton bought a copy of during the Clintons' 1993 summer vacation on Martha's Vineyard, Caulfield explains what the "catcher in the rye" means...
...ASSASSINATION OF RABIN DEMONstrates that the rise of religious fundamentalism, be it Christian, Islamic or Jewish, presents the greatest danger to world peace. MICHAEL LIPSHUTZ North Caulfield, Australia...
...play's focus is John, a sort of Holden Caulfield for the "Silver Spoons" set, and his unrequited passion for his longtime friend Lisa. Rejecting the complicated poetics of the Petrachan lover...
...like listening to a World Series no-hitter called by a taciturn announcer: the listener knows something terrific is happening out there, but he just can't hear it. The narrator is teenager Jane Singer, second daughter of a gently Jewish family from Cleveland and worshipper of Holden Caulfield. Jane tells about, among others, her mother, who divorces Jane's father and takes up the violin, and her formerly promiscuous sister, who marries an Orthodox doctor and gives birth to a boy Jane jokingly calls "the Little Messiah." Except for eloquent moments, the reader longs for a little verve. Jane...