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Good novels about school - like The Catcher in the Rye and A Separate Peace - are classics. Here, the common memories of childhood - fear, rebellion, shame, what Yeats called "Youth's dreamy load" - are set against the structured, unfair world of a convent school...
...contradictory description of the shootings. They asked to have five hours of her testimony reread. Foreman Russell Von Glahn, a bus mechanic from Yonkers, had a clerk repeat aloud again and again the parts where Harris tried to recall how the shots were fired. Marion Stephens, a teacher from Rye, asked to have Harris' account of how she attempted suicide reread twice...
Case histories make that easy to believe. The books that are most often attacked would make a nice library for anybody with broad-gauged taste. Among them: Catcher in the Rye, Brave New World, Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, Catch-22, Soul on Ice, and To Kill a Mockingbird. Little Black Sambo and Merchant of Venice run into recurring protests based on suspicions that the former is antiblack, the latter antiSemitic. One school board banned Making It with Mademoiselle, but reversed the decision after finding out it was a how-to pattern book for youngsters hoping to learn...
...autograph, Chapman was waiting again, this time in the shadows of the entryway with a gun. When the police grabbed him after the shooting, they found he still had the autographed album with him. He also had a paperback copy of J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye...
...more effective campaigners for Bush is his wife Barbara, 55, who comes from a background much like his. The daughter of a wealthy publishing executive in Rye, N.Y., she graduated from the fashionable Ashley Hall school for girls in Charleston, S.C., then attended Smith College for one year. She dropped out to marry Bush over 35 years ago, after they had met at a dance while both were home on Christmas vacation. Mrs. Bush maintains that "I'm a nester" who likes nothing better than to putter around their home in Houston on weekends. Nonetheless, she campaigns tirelessly for Bush?...