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...tailor their texts. Says Barbara Parker, head of PFAW's National Schools and Libraries Project: "Censorship activity is so well organized that the only way to combat it is through an equal amount of organization. If 93% of a community doesn't want The Catcher in the Rye, that's O.K. That's a community decision. My disagreement is that in education today things are being run by vocal control, not local control." Snaps Norma Gabler: "It's a double standard. Those liberal elements have controlled the minds of our children for years. If parents...
...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...
...reviewers, talk-show hosts and other promotional outlets. Galleys are rarer: usually only 50 to 200 are printed. A copy of V., by the elusive Thomas Pynchon, brings $350 in a first edition, $850 in a bound galley. A well-preserved galley of Salinger's Catcher in the Rye commands $5,000. Even pop chillers like Stephen King's Carrie are listed at $200 in galley form...
...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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