Word: catchers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...owners lost--they failed to bust the union. "I'm just glad to be playing baseball again," Blue Jay catcher and assistant player rep Ernie Witt said, "but I'm not happy with the settlement." Why, Ernie? "The whole thing could have been avoided. I just don't like...
...Honolulu security guard and flew to New York with money borrowed from his Japanese wife. After getting Lennon's autograph, he killed his hero with four hollow .38-cal. bullets. He was arrested moments later, carrying a copy of J.D. Salinger's The Catcher...
...June, Chapman, a born-again Christian, told the court that God had told him to plead guilty, and so he did, against the advice of his lawyers. At his sentencing last week, he announced a vow of silence and offered, as "my final spoken words," a passage from The Catcher in the Rye: "I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around-nobody big, I mean-except me. And, I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What...
...work cut out for him. This is no cheeky celebrity-jock special for weekend TV. His mentor is the most successful "serious" young writer in America. Few novelists are rewarded financially as well as critically. Fewer still make cultural waves. In the '50s J.D. Salinger produced Catcher in the Rye, the Huckleberry Finn for the Silent Generation. Readers in the '60s and early '70s rallied around Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle, with its "karass," and the casually philosophical "So it goes," from Slaughterhouse-Five. The end of the decade be longed to Irving...
Good novels about school - like The Catcher in the Rye and A Separate Peace - are classics. Here, the common memories of childhood - fear, rebellion, shame, what Yeats called "Youth's dreamy load" - are set against the structured, unfair world of a convent school...