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Even though Holden may be pushing 40, my own students still regard him as the representative youth who voices problems they have just begun to grasp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 28, 1972 | 2/28/1972 | See Source »

...relieved to read that Holden has finally teacher - made and a it. But loyal married, servant a of the father, Esatablishment! What a sellout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 28, 1972 | 2/28/1972 | See Source »

...really want to hear about it, I respectfully submit that Holden Caulfield is not "pushing 40" for the same reason that Hamlet is not pushing 400. Both of these "mixed-up kids" have something to say to all ages, as evidenced by their up." faithful following; they will never "grow EDWARD MC INTYRE De Kalb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 28, 1972 | 2/28/1972 | See Source »

...What you've done, buddy, you've given your readers a glorious vision of a superannuated Holden Caulfield shoving Maalox into his mouth and peering nearsightedly into the medicine-cabinet mirror in an attempt to meditate his hairline out of receding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 28, 1972 | 2/28/1972 | See Source »

Make him into a monk if you have to, but don't turn him into a hack with no vision. If Holden Caulfield did turn out to be a schoolteacher, he would take infinite delight in the shine on the braces of the boy sitting in the third row, or something. He would know that was why he was pushing the rock all over the place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 28, 1972 | 2/28/1972 | See Source »

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