Word: rye
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While the NEA contract exempts works of proven artistic merit, smut charges are all too frequently leveled at works of substance. Classics such as Huckleberry Finn and Catcher in the Rye have been banned in school libraries around the U.S.; many who urge antipornography rules at the NEA also perceive rampant obscenity in prime-time TV. As pro-NEA Representative Sidney Yates of Illinois argues, "Shakespeare can be kind of bawdy. The NEA's contract could encourage people to criticize grants for the presentation of his plays." Opponents of the NEA's new language also fear it could lead...
...compassion and revulsion. And the encounter devastatingly sketches the uneasy state of U.S. race relations, in which white liberals may endorse the black cause in theory, yet not know any blacks socially and thus fawn on or patronize them. When the intruder starts to analyze The Catcher in the Rye in scholarly jargon, the hosts are spellbound by his vocabulary and miss the fact that his rap becomes comic nonsense...
Aronson, 44, grew up in a middle-class home in Rye, N.Y. After graduating from the University of Chicago, he became a VISTA volunteer in Kentucky. He later worked to overthrow the corrupt administration of United Mine Workers President W.A. (Tony) Boyle and then, back in Kentucky, he helped win a landmark coalworkers contract in 1974 -- an effort immortalized in the film Harlan County, U.S.A...
...wasn't the prayers we didn't understand or the events at Mt. Sinai that made us Jewish--it was the family gatherings at Hannukah and Passover, the special appreciation of Woody Allen, the grandparents who used a bissel (a little) Yiddish. It was corned beef with mustard on rye, not with mayonaise on white. It was having Sunday brunch more religiously than Shabbat meals. It was seeing everyone we knew at synagogue twice a year, and pretending spare ribs didn't count as pork in the Chinese restaurant. And it was suffering an afternoon a week at Hebrew school...
...breakfast about 8 o'clock," he says. "We switched a long time ago to breakfast food -- cereals. I'll have a piece of rye toast, and I have one of those little honey bears with which I can squirt honey on it." Fortified, he heads for the stable...