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...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 him of a "terrifying" narcissism and wondered whether Seymour killed himself because he suspected that he, too, was "a fake." (See TIME's 1961 cover on J.D. Salinger...
...We’ve got to play Harvard basketball,” Wright said. “Keep doing what we’ve been doing the whole season–all that starts with defense...
While Cornell is a veteran team, relying on its senior trio of Wittman, Foote, and point guard Louis Dale for most of its offense, a key to the Crimson’s success has been the play of its three freshman–forward Kyle Casey and guards Christian Webster and Brandyn Curry...
...Saturday and not necessarily thinking of Friday,” Amaker said. “Saturday is going to be there and Saturday is going to be a heck of a lot more to us and everyone else that has circled it or is excited about it if we play well and win on Friday...
...Although it was his first official State of the Union address, it was the third time that Obama had addressed a joint session of Congress in prime time. The first, in February 2009, was an introduction, a statement of goals and principles. The second, in September, was a defensive play, an attempt to reclaim the high ground on health care, which had begun to slip away. This third time was a declaration of his having survived his first serious setback and of his determination to keep trying...