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...Didn't Say Yes is a tryout of Lonnie Coleman's comedy set in Greenwich Village, which has Joan Hackett caught in a triangle with her editor husband (William Redfield) and her novelist sister (Joan Caulfield). Mountainhome. Pa.; Fayetteville, N.Y.; Laconia. N.H.; Falmouth. Mass.: Fitchburg. Mass...
Brownie Points. Unlike Salinger's magic Holden Caulfield, Decker is inarticulate, and the internal musings of this gilded mooncalf are gruesomely awkward. When he behaves well, he thinks of himself as "making Brownie points humanwise." Others undertake to explain him to himself, like his college roommate. He is a Siwash Indian who is the first of his tribe to go to college, but he tells Wells: "You fascinate me, Wells. You are untouched. No diseases of the outside world have tinged you. You're part of an aboriginal race, maybe. I wonder if it has something...
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...
Creating Their Own Misery. The British schoolboys in Lord of the Flies are a few years younger than Salinger's Holden Caulfield-they are six to twelve-but they are not self-pitying innocents in a world made miserable by adults. They create their own world, their own misery...