Word: rye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lilting polyphony that sings of trees (Streamwood, Elmwood, Lakewood. Kirkwood), the rolling country (Cedar Hill, Cockrell Hill, Forest Hills), or the primeval timberlands (Forest Grove, Park Forest, Oak Park, Deer Park). But it has its roots in such venerable names as Salem, Greenwich, Chester, Berkeley, Evanston, Sewickley and Rye...
...your May 9 story wherein you wrote that Teacher Levin nearly got the ax for teaching The Catcher in the Rye...
...Rye on the Rocks...
...fired. This means that my contract will not be renewed in June. The crime, as cited: attempting to teach The Catcher in the Rye. But before I had a chance to teach the book even one day, Principal (of Male High School) W. S. Milburn, also president of the Louisville board of aldermen and a member of Citizens for Decent Literature, banned the book-without reading it. I protested in vain. Indeed, it was the unheard-of defiance in protesting such a dictum that led to my dismissal...
...tenth-grade English class has just finished reading The Catcher in the Rye. We were neither impressed nor corrupted by the language in the book. Nor did we think it a "beautiful and moving" story. Repeating unpleasant language, which most of us have already heard somewhere, was not the point of studying this book. We read it because it is well written, and we learned a lot from discussing Holden Caulfield's problems...