Word: rye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some adolescent reason that The Catcher in the Rye's Holden Caulfield would have understood, Clint Williams ponders suicide. "Of course, if I end up in some lousy place like Hell," he reflects in his diary, "it would be a miserable mistake. The thing I am gambling on is that after death people become automatically ghosts, and possess thereby complete freedom of movement. ADVANTAGES: I could follow Berry-berry around from place to place...
...BALLAD OF PECKHAM RYE (160 pp.) -Muriel Spark-Lippincott...
...horns. When he looks at people, he is "like a succubus whose mouth is its eyes." In the short span of this hilarious novel, Douglas the Devil coaxes into mortal sin not only Humphrey Place but most of the first citizens in the South London district of Peckham Rye...
...Your cover story read like a watered-down satire with tongue on rye, instead of tongue in cheek, until I reached the perceptive quote from School Psychologist Koss. The quotes that followed, especially the one from "Anti-Conformity Leaguer" Ginger Powers [whose league disbanded because it was becoming too organized], quieted my fear that even TIME had fallen into the easy rut of sameness that suburban living is apt to breed...
...Knowles, 73, turned the rare golfing trick of shooting a lower score than his age when he came home witn a round of 72, had another of 73 to finish a creditable third in the overall standings of the U.S. Senior Golf Association championship in his home town of Rye, N.Y. The winner: California's 57-year-old John Dawson, who took his third straight title with a two-round total...