Word: rye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After scanning a single page of J. D. Salinger's 1951 The Catcher in the Rye, the most avidly admired novel on modern American campuses, Tulsa's School Superintendent Charles C. Mason had one comment: "Shocking!" Mason was jarred when eight angry parents shoved the book under his nose and bitterly complained that English Teacher Beatrice Levin had assigned it to their 16-year-olds at Edison High School. The parents were not taken with Novelist Salinger's 16-year-old hero, a sensitive boy named Holden Caulfield who goes underground for 48 hours in Manhattan...
...Catcher in the Rye...
...resident of Rye Beach, N.H., Bowditch has been active in alumni affairs for many years. He served as chairman of his Permanent Class Committee and was twice a director of the Alumni Association...