Word: catcher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...best play by a Senator all day came when reserve catcher Ken Retzer outmaneuvered an Oriole to catch the President's season-opening pitch. After that, although sharp pitching by Don Rudolph, Ron Kline, and Steve Hamilton kept the Birds in check most of the way, the sluggish Senator offense never got going...
...Nats scored their lone run in the fifth when Larry Osborne singled, moved to third on a double by catcher Don Leppert, and scored as Ed Brinkman was grounding out to shortstop...
...catcher Ed Sadowski defeated his old teammates with a ninth inning homer giving the L.A. Angels a 4-3 victory in Scottsdale, Ariz. yesterday...
Many of us who read and loved The Catcher in the Rye in the tender years of adolescence are puzzled by the new J. D. Salinger. We took Holden Caulfield to heart because he was our friend, betrayed and maltreated like us by an insensitive world. But the Glass family is beyond our ken. The saga of Seymour, Zooey and the others, clouded by esoteric references to Eastern philosophy, can not hold us as the story of the guileless school-boy did. Has Salinger changed in the ten years of transition? No, he remains essentially the same. We have changed...
...Salinger's greatest support comes from the group that can consider themselves among the "ins," to a large degree the younger adolescents - the same readers who feld Catcher was their Bible. Holden Caulfield's in group includes himself, his sister, Gatsby, Eustasia Vye, Ring Lardner, and all youths who think themselves sensitive and oppressed. On the outside are parents, teachers, roommates, and adults in general. The exclusiveness of the Glass family is similar: creative people like professors and earnest students (exception is made, of course, for Seymour and Buddy), Mrs. Glass and all who slight super-intellegence in general...