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...hardly praise this book enough and one wonders if an edition of merely 25 million copies will be sufficient to meet the demand. In any case, it certainly does give President Kennedy's campaign to propagate culture a decided boost, for Fallout Protection contends more favorably than even Huckleberry Finn or Moby Dick for the title Great American Novel...
Tolerance would urge that such productions are not intended to be read at all but to form an expensive, highly colored, temporary parquetry for the playroom floor. But suspicion suggests that the same kind of mind is at work here that tries to purge Huckleberry Finn from the schools, that deliberately holds back "reading skills" to some arbitrary "age-group level...
These are humble scenes, and Mr. Thompson presents them leisurely and reverently without any trace of bombast or pomposity. Mr. Robert A. Brooks, who staged the Christ Church production, has been as plain in his direction. Against the backdrop of a simple wooden frame set by Patricia Finn, Mr. Brooks has set his elegantly robed characters in effectively static and stylized positions; neither the music nor the singers themselves are bedevilled by necessities of operatic nuances...
...nine years old, and I am in the fourth grade. I feel that your article does not tell the whole truth. Johnny reads all kinds of things, including TIME and LIFE Magazines, Huckleberry Finn, The First Fifteen Years...
Holden is not merely a sort of Penrod of the Angst age. He is more nearly a modern and urban Huckleberry Finn...