Word: rye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...best-known passages in The Catcher in the Rye is Holden Caulfield's comment: "What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it." Fans of Author Salinger are an especially frustrated lot; there is no calling him up "whenever you felt like it." He is the most private of public authors...
...Before that, I chased cops for Providence and Boston papers." He wrote one of Time's most-talked-about articles last year, coining the phrase and describing the practice of publishing "non-books." He was at Oberlin College when The Catcher in the Rye came out, "and liked it enormously, but did not identify with Holden Caulfield, because at the time I thought I was Eugene Gant." (Translation for the Holden Caulfield set: Skow was then hung on Tom Wolfe...
...Catcher in the Rye...
From his hermitage in Cornish, N.H., publicity-proscribing Author J. D. (The Catcher in the Rye) Salinger, 42, proclaimed a new declaration of independence. "It is my rather subversive opinion," he wrote for the dustjacket of his forthcoming book, Franny and Zooey, "that a writer's feelings of anonymity-obscurity are the second most valuable property on loan to him during his working years." With customary obliqueness, Salinger pointedly failed to state what he considered a writer's most valuable property, proceeded to brush off the usual biographical data with the uncandid note: "My wife has asked...
...attention to another of his campus contributions: the school's 135 Morehead Scholars. Mustering those about to graduate-each of whom had enjoyed a four-year, $5,000 grant-Union Carbide Engineering Consultant Morehead (who still commutes frequently to the company's Manhattan headquarters from suburban Rye) treated them to a brief bit of his practical philosophy: "Money doesn't bring happiness, but it helps to quiet the nerves...