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...seller list for six months. By that time, the cult status of The Catcher in the Rye was fully established. But in some important corners of American letters, there was a backlash forming. In reviews that were on the whole positive, John Updike still found Salinger sentimental, and Alfred Kazin thought he was getting "cute." For years John Cheever told friends that he thought Salinger wouldn't let Hollywood make a movie version of Catcher because Salinger was too old to play Holden. And in a review that is said to have infuriated Salinger, Mary McCarthy accused...
Past Massey lecturers have included, Richard Rorty, Toni Morrison, Gore Vidal, and Alfred Kazin...
...Kazin said students at the time were critical of Harvard and Harvard authority figures. “Lookng back,” he says, “Harvard was a good place...
Thirty-two years later, Kazin said he doesn’t resent Pusey’s decision, which was much criticized at the time. The atmosphere at the time of the takeover, Kazin remembers, was extremely hostile...
...good liberal and we were radicals,” Kazin said. “At the time we saw liberals as the enemy...