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...fact that most of the food on Deli Day is prefaced by the term "real" says a lot about what we normally eat. "Real" bagels remain round and slightly misshapen because they aren't kept in plastic bags and mass-processed at the Lender's factory. "Real" rye bread is sort of oblong, not square. "Real" cheesecake is a shade of yellow between lemon squares and the Hollandaise they try to serve with brocolli spears...
Story time: in 1985, a Fieldston Academy juniorquarterback came off the bench late in the fourthquarter against Rye Country Day School. Withseconds left, he heroically whipped a 65-yardscoring bomb to give Fieldston...
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...