Word: rye
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...buildings, in the name of progress, merely take, Roche's buildings give-pleasant plazas or little parks and improved working conditions. Union Carbide's complex is only four stories high. Conoco, near Houston, consists of three-story buildings clustered around an artificial lake. General Foods, in Rye, N.Y., in harmony with surrounding residential buildings, is seven stories high...
...list or other of banned books: Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath, Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, Bernard Malamud's The Fixer, J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, Ralph Ellison's Invisible. Man, Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, P.L Travers' Mary Poppins and The American Heritage Dictionary. Last week a collection of literary luminaries from PEN, the writers' association, dramatized their opposition to censorship by staging a public reading from the banned...
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Susan Harris Rye...
...born-again Christian, told the court that God had told him to plead guilty, and so he did, against the advice of his lawyers. At his sentencing last week, he announced a vow of silence and offered, as "my final spoken words," a passage from The Catcher in the Rye: "I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around-nobody big, I mean-except me. And, I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have...