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...first time I came across Salinger, I swore in my head for a week. My ninth-grade English teacher assigned us to write fairy tales in Holden??s voice, and she was taken aback by my willingness, sweet little 15-year-old and all, to adopt Holden??s goddam style right down to the goddam word...
...still have those novels today, but we also now have Prozac. But there’s not since been a voice quite as irrepressible as Holden?...
...Holden??s fascination with language extends to foreign tongues as well, and he makes an effort to enjoy poems in their original form. He is especially interested in Russian literature, a preference he credits to a class he took his first year at Harvard...
...Kevin B. Holden ’05 has every bleary-eyed student beat. The Winthrop House Literature concentrator is currently enrolled in eight classes, which requires two different study cards, the signature of his senior tutor and a petition to the Ad Board. Holden??s classes include: “Poets as Critics” (Lit 133), “Philosophy of Mathematics” (Phil 148), Trees (Science B-40), a conference course entitled “The 20th-Century Post-Realist Novel in Eastern Europe” (Comp Lit 164), the sophomore Literature tutorial...
...Holden??s brisk, kind voice accentuates his innate attention to detail. He treats every sentence out of his mouth with delicate precision, as if it is to be his last, and often frames them with dramatic gestures. During conversation, he interacts with his environment almost as much as the individual he is talking to, often wiping or scratching the table in between words and phrases...
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