Word: fats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Newhouse added the money-losing Journal to his chain in 1961, he has been consolidating its noneditorial operations with those of the Oregonian (which he bought in 1950), and claims to be confident of eventually turning a profit. The Oregonian has slashed its noneditorial manpower by 30%, is so fat with ads that it shows a profit of more than $1,000,000 a year...
...leaven its heavy political diet, the New Leader has enlarged its critical departments. And thanks to a sprucing-up by Designer Herb Lubalin, who overhauled McCall's and the Saturday Evening Post for fat fees but remade the New Leader for nothing, it now boasts eye-catching black-and-white covers and line drawings that few of its rivals can match...
...himself dies soon afterward. Two fat strangers come calling and take him to a quarry at the edge of town. In the book one of them strangles him while the other drives a knife into his heart and twists it twice-"Like a dog!" K. says as he dies. In the film they dynamite him, and out of the stone pit rises a small cloud shaped like a mushroom...
...course, for Seymour and Buddy), Mrs. Glass and all who slight super-intellegence in general and the Glasses in particular (like the wedding guests in Raise High) are in the out-group. The Glass children and their devotees are and the rest of the world is an audience-the "Fat Lady in the third row" who Zooey maintains is the real...
...egotism. Far from being amusing, the stories become instead a view into "a terrifying Narcissus pool." Seymour's suicide suggests the author's fear of the possibility of his own 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...