Word: faked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...awesome figure who probably knows more about the peregrinations of Europe's masterpieces than any man alive. But it is not just his huge file of photographs or his unparalleled collection of auction catalogues, or even his incredible memory, that accounts for his ability to spot a fake or dismiss a work of mediocrity within the blink of an eyelid. His father, who fled his native Alsace when the Prussians swarmed through it in 1870 and started the secondhand store in Paris from which the great art empire grew, put his son through a highly personal and rigorous training...
...faults. "Did Seymour kill himself because he had married a phony... or because he was so happy and the Fat Lady's world was so wonderful?" asks Miss McCarthy. "Or because he had been lying, his author had been lying, and it was all terrible, and he was a fake...
...suicide that she sternly calls to order the little acrobats in Seymour's moral gymnasium. "Did Seymour commit suicide because he had married a phony?" she asks. "Or because he had been lying, his author had been lying, and it was all terrible, and he was a fake...
...Fake or not, it is easy to understand why so many of the young have been led to play Follow My Leader with Seymour. In the Salinger world, most things which trouble those in the process of growing up have been magically abolished (Salinger is said to complain that his true audience is too small to reach his books on the shelves). The Glass children have no need to do anything better than mother or father; they just are superior. Father Les ("Less") is a midget personage when compared with any of his offspring. Mother Bessie is a slightly comic...
General Sheriff. Since Omar wouldn't really qualify as an actor unless there were something a little bit fake about him, there are a few small redeeming flaws in his essential oneness with the desert. His Arabic is, well, shocking, and he is studying to improve it. He is the son of a rich lumber dealer, who sent him to Cairo's Victoria College, a properly English Eton on the Nile, where he captained the association football club. French was spoken at home...