Word: caulfield
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...best-known passages in The Catcher in the Rye is Holden Caulfield's comment: "What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it." Fans of Author Salinger are an especially frustrated lot; there is no calling him up "whenever you felt like it." He is the most private of public authors...
...Boston papers." He wrote one of Time's most-talked-about articles last year, coining the phrase and describing the practice of publishing "non-books." He was at Oberlin College when The Catcher in the Rye came out, "and liked it enormously, but did not identify with Holden Caulfield, because at the time I thought I was Eugene Gant." (Translation for the Holden Caulfield set: Skow was then hung on Tom Wolfe...
...before the official publication date, Salinger's followers queued up, and bookstores sold out their first supplies. To a large extent, the excitement is fueled by memories of Salinger's most famous work. For of all the characters set to paper by American authors since the war, only Holden Caulfield, the gallant scatologer of The Catcher in the Rye, has taken flesh permanently, as George F. Babbitt, Jay Gatsby, Lieut. Henry and Eugene Gant took flesh...
...between Richard Amsterdam and Mirsky's Twirckoff is more important than their surface similarities. Richard Amsterdam was a product of the class-conscious '30s; his pudding is Hasty Pudding. On the other hand, Twirckoff is an authentic Problem Child of Our Time. He is a sort of Jewish Holden Caulfield worried more about who be is than where he is climbing...
Married. Neale Fraser, 27, handsome, hard-serving Australian who is the world's best amateur tennis player; and Wendy Mclver, 23, non-tennis playing daughter of a purchasing agent; in South Caulfield, Victoria...