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...this reader, his puerile exegeses of such systems of theology, philosophy, epistemology and, for that matter, bath-taking, as he has brought under the batteries of his irredeemably third-class mind bring much the same kind of pain as does unexpectedly bending back a fingernail below the quick...
...heartiest congratulations on the superlative reproductions of Chinese art. I'm aware of the problems involved: as a journalist, I feel that a new standard has been set; as a TIME reader, I'm grateful...
...LIKE NO MAGAZINE YOU HAVE EVER READ BEFORE, enthused the Saturday Evening Post in full-page ads introducing the face lifting that was prescribed to cure its ten-year slump in ad linage. Most readers are not likely to be so certain: the new magazine reads like the old Post. The fiction is the same tug-at-the-heartstrings stuff. Nonfiction will be "weeks, months, even years ahead of press coverage," says the Post; yet the new issue explores mainly old press favorites: ex-Yankee Manager Casey Stengel, Broadway Producer David Merrick, the "young widow." the "new" Japan. Only...
...face of all expression that might quite simply, perhaps even beautifully, reveal how he felt about the arriving person." This is the sort of bull's-eye at which Salinger is unmatched. It is felt by the flesh as much as by the mind; for an instant, the reader's cheeks sag as he remembers, with ridiculous guilt, the last time he met a train. During lunch (at a French restaurant, naturally; Lane is no steak man), the young man turns out to be insufferable. Salinger destroys him mercilessly as he shows Lane smugly explaining some choice portions...
Astonishing Life. The reader may almost feel sorry that she has exchanged the mystic's mad glint for the calm smile of a mere lover of humanity. And the parable of the Fat Lady may seem intellectually underweight. But Zooey's lyric rant is not a seminarian's thesis; it is a gift of love received from Seymour and transmitted to a distraught, prayer-drunk, 20-year-old girl. Apart from questioning the depth of this message, critics?notably Alfred Kazin, who apologizes solemnly for having to say it?have suggested that the Glass children are too cute...