Word: catcher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from the Mound. Onetime Catcher Richards is particularly proud of five pitchers who are 22 or under-the finest group to come up in years. The two brightest rookie stars: Southpaw Steve Barber, 21, with a record of 4-1, an earned run average of 1.67; Chuck ("El Stiletto") Estrada, 22, with a 3-1 mark...
...your May 9 story wherein you wrote that Teacher Levin nearly got the ax for teaching The Catcher...
...fired. This means that my contract will not be renewed in June. The crime, as cited: attempting to teach The Catcher in the Rye. But before I had a chance to teach the book even one day, Principal (of Male High School) W. S. Milburn, also president of the Louisville board of aldermen and a member of Citizens for Decent Literature, banned the book-without reading it. I protested in vain. Indeed, it was the unheard-of defiance in protesting such a dictum that led to my dismissal...
...tenth-grade English class has just finished reading The Catcher in the Rye. We were neither impressed nor corrupted by the language in the book. Nor did we think it a "beautiful and moving" story. Repeating unpleasant language, which most of us have already heard somewhere, was not the point of studying this book. We read it because it is well written, and we learned a lot from discussing Holden Caulfield's problems...
...interested to know that at the instigation of student protest against the stench of its vocabulary, Catcher has recently been removed from circulation by our library...