Word: rye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pronounced "Rye...
Perhaps typical of those more open-minded YSF members was the Hunter College student who was discussing J. D. Salinger's Cathcher in the Rye. Because it idealizes childhood, defends rebelliousness, suggests that bourgeolse society is "phony," and employs a few words, Catcher has become a of ideological contention. journals hailed it as a master while the National Review att it for sounding like Rousse some parents' "decency" goutempted to have it banned fro schools...
...laboratory in a cornfield outside Moscow, Lysenko gets every facility and encouragement. He goes right on trying to change nature in far-out ways by grafting pine branches on fir trees, injecting the blood of Plymouth Rock chickens into Buff Orpington hens, trying to turn wheat into rye. He complains righteously against Science Academy President Aleksandr Nesmeyanov (TIME cover, June 2, 1958) for criticizing his experiments. Says he pointedly: "I am infinitely happy that my modest work is highly prized by the party government and Nikita Khrushchev in person...
...Salinger, 41, talented chronicler of the prodigious young (The Catcher in the Rye...
...suffering and joy, one of the most vital and abundant movies ever made. Based on a bestselling Bengali novel by Bibhuti Bannerji, the picture was written, produced and directed as three separate pictures by a 39-year-old Calcutta film buff named Satyajit Ray (pronounced Sawt-yaw-jit Rye). Each of the three lasts about an hour and 45 minutes and stands as a separate and complete cinema experience in its own right. But the moviemaker intended his trilogy ultimately to be seen and judged as a single immense discursive epic in the Indian tradition-as a modern Mahabharata...